ORDINANCE NO. 240512

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Sponsor:  Director of Health Department

Accepting and approving a sub-grant award agreement from the National Institutes of Health through the University of Missouri - Kansas City to provide funding for church-based COVID-19 testing in Kansas City, Missouri; estimating and appropriating the additional sum of $82,652.00, not previously appropriated, in the Health Grants Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

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WHEREAS, the University of Kansas City, Missouri (UMKC) and the Kansas City Health Department will collaborate on an NIH-awarded study to assist with examining religiously appropriate COVID-19 intervention strategies in the African American churches; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That a sub-grant award amendment, in the amount of $82,652.00 between the City of Kansas City, Missouri, acting through its Director of Health, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), whereby UMKC will provide funding to support the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics in Underserved Populations initiative within Kansas City, Missouri for the period beginning November 1, 2023 through October 31, 2024, is hereby accepted and approved. A copy of the grant award agreement, in substantial form, is on file with the Director of Health.

Section 2. That additional revenue in the following account of the Health Grants Fund is hereby estimated in the following amounts:

25-2480-500001-472665-G50544425                      COVID-19 RTT                                                               $82,652.00

Section 3. That the additional sum of $82,652.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Health Grants Fund in the following accounts:

25-2480-505444-A-G50544425                                            COVID-19 RTT                                                               $82,652.00

Section 4. That the Director of Health is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $82,652.00 from funds appropriated to Account No. 25-2480-505444-G50544425 for the contract.

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