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[COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR] ORDINANCE NO. 221057

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Sponsor:  Director of the Public Works Department

Accepting and approving a grant award agreement in the amount of $52,025.00 with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide funding for cybersecurity through the Transit Security Grant Program; estimating revenue in the amount of $52,025.00 in the Streetcar Fund; appropriating that amount to the Transit Security Grant Program Funding account; and designating requisitioning authority.

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WHEREAS, the City of Kansas City, Missouri, was awarded $52,025.00 to provide cybersecurity training for the Kansas City Streetcar Operations; and

WHEREAS, joint Department of Homeland Security / Federal Emergency Management Agency priorities are inclusive of cybersecurity; and

WHEREAS, the frequency of cybersecurity attacks is rising; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That a grant award agreement between the City of Kansas City, Missouri, acting through its Director of Public Works, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, whereby the Federal Emergency Management Agency will provide funding, for the period beginning September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025, to assure an adequate cybersecurity assessment for the agency, for a total amount not to exceed $52,025.00, is hereby accepted and approved.  A copy of the award agreement, in substantial form, is attached hereto and made a part hereof by reference.

Section 2. That revenue in the following account of the Streetcar Fund is hereby estimated in the following amount:

23-2085-890001-476850-G89TSGP22     Transit Security Grant Program Funding        $52,025.00

Section 3. That the sum of $52,025.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Streetcar Fund to the following account:

23-2085-895318-B-G89TSGP22                             Transit Security Grant Program Funding       $52,025.00

Section 4. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $52,025.00 from funds appropriated to account number 23-2085-895318-B-G89TSGP22 for the aforesaid agreement.

Section 5.  That the Director of Public Works is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 23-2085-895318.

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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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                                                                                                                                     Nelson V. Munoz

 Assistant City Attorney