ORDINANCE NO. 240514

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Sponsor:  Director of Health Department

Accepting and approving a grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice to provide funding for a community care program to support youth success; estimating and appropriating a total of $450,000.00 in the Health Grants Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

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WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of Justice has awarded the City  $450,000.00 for creating a community care program to support youth success from the OJJDP FY2023 Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success grant allocation; and

                     WHEREAS, the Health Department will be the project administrator for this grant; NOW, THEREFORE;

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That a grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice that will provide funding for a community care program to support youth success in Kansas City, Missouri, for the period beginning January 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025, for an additional amount of $450,000.00, is hereby accepted an approved. A copy of the grant, in substantial form, is on file with the Director of Health.

Section 2. That the revenue in the amount of $450,000.00 is hereby estimated in the following account of the Health Grants Fund:

25-2480-500001-478295-G50508625                      Department of Justice Grant                                           $450,000.00

Section 3. That the sum of $450,000.00 is hereby appropriated in the following account of the Health Grants Fund:

25-2480-505086-A-G50508625                                          DOJ Youth Success Grant                                           $163,125.00

25-2480-505086-B-G50508625                                          DOJ Youth Success Grant                                             283,275.00

25-2480-505086-C-G50508625                                          DOJ Youth Success Grant                                                3,600.00

                                                                                                                                                   TOTAL                                                               $450,000.00

Section 4. That the Director of Health is hereby designated requisitioning authority for the following Account No. 25-505086-G50508625.

Section 5. That this Ordinance is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Section 503(a)(3)(C) of the City Charter in that it appropriates money, and shall take effect in accordance with that section.

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I hereby certify that there is a balance, otherwise unencumbered, to the credit of the appropriation to which the foregoing expenditure is to be charged, and a cash balance, otherwise unencumbered, in the treasury, to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made, each sufficient to meet the obligation hereby incurred.

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Tammy L. Queen

Director of Finance

Approved as to form:

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Joseph A. Guarino

Senior Associate City Attorney