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[COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR] ORDINANCE NO. 240832

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Sponsor:  Councilmember Crispin Rea

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

Reallocating $145,657.00 previously accepted and appropriated in Ordinance No. 230292 from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, FY 2022 Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) previously allocated to the Health Department and authorizing contract with ArtsTech to provide client advocacy services for crime victims within the scope of such grant.

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WHEREAS, on April 13, 2023, the City Council passed Ordinance No. 230292, which accepted $678,136.00 from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, FY 2022 Byrne Justice Assistance Grant, authorized cooperative agreements for the allocation of such funds between the City, Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office, City of Grandview, City of Independence, City of Raytown and the Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission and designated the Director of Neighborhood Services Department as requisitioning authority; and

WHEREAS, SAVE KC is a collaboration between the City, Kansas City Police Department, Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office, Missouri Probation and Parole, US Attorney’s Office, and many social service partners to reduce violent crime. The program utilizes a focused deterrence model with an emphasis on restorative practices and enforcement; and

WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 230292 described $145,657.00 of the above funds remaining with the City as allocated to the Health Department “for salaries and fringe,” the intended use of which was client advocacy services for crime victims within the scope of the SAVE KC collaboration and within the scope of the above grant; and

WHEREAS, because City has identified a non-profit corporation, ArtsTech, who is the fiscal agent for SAVE KC, that it believes is better positioned than the Health Department to provide such client advocacy services for crime victims, City seeks to rescind the allocation of $145,657.00 previously made to the Health Department in Ordinance No. 230292, and to authorize a contract with ArtsTech for such services; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Justice has approved a scope change that would permit City to provide such funding to a third-party, such as ArtsTech, to perform these client advocacy services within the scope of the grant; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the amount of $145,657.00 previously accepted and appropriated in Ordinance No. 230292 from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, FY 2022 Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) and allocated to the Health Department “for salaries and fringe” shall no longer be allocated to the Health Department.

Section 2. That the Director of Neighborhood Services Department, who remains designated as requisitioning authority for the above funds as stated in Ordinance No. 230292, is authorized to execute, on behalf of the City, a contract with ArtsTech to provide client advocacy services for crime victim within the scope of the above grant in an amount not to exceed $145,000.00 for a one-year term, and enter into up to three one-year renewal terms, subject to appropriation by the City Council, and as provided for and subject to the conditions set forth in the contract. The agreement is approved in substantial form, as that on file with the City Clerk.

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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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Bret Kassen

Associate City Attorney