File #: 240920    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Referred
File created: 10/9/2024 In control: Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee
On agenda: 10/22/2024 Final action:
Title: Sponsor: Mayor Pro Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw Authorizing the Director of Health to expend $300,000.00 from funds previously appropriated in the Violence Prevention and Intervention Funds to provide funding to the Police Foundation for software acquisition.
Sponsors: Ryana Parks-Shaw
Attachments: 1. No docket memo 240920

ORDINANCE NO. 240920

 

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Sponsor:  Mayor Pro Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw

 

Authorizing the Director of Health to expend $300,000.00 from funds previously appropriated in the Violence Prevention and Intervention Funds to provide funding to the Police Foundation for software acquisition.

 

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WHEREAS, ensuring law enforcement has the tools to respond quickly and efficiently increases public safety; and

 

WHEREAS, the Kansas City Police Department has identified additional software that will enhance data integration and operations management; and

 

WHEREAS, it will cost $2 million over 3 years to purchase the software; and the Police Foundation of Kansas City is raising $1.7 million to acquire said software; and

 

WHEREAS, this data analysis software will greatly enhance the effectiveness of the SAVE KC (Stand Against Violence Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day) Focused Deterrence program; and

 

WHEREAS, certain police departments that have utilized this software have decreased open homicide cases by up to 40%; and

 

WHEREAS, there are available funds in the Violence Prevention and Intervention Fund; and

 

WHEREAS, City Council desires to promote public safety and support efficient, data-driven law enforcement practices by providing $300,000.00 to the Police Foundation of Kansas City for the purchase of said software from previously appropriated funds; NOW, THEREFORE,

 

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1. Authorizing the Director of Health to expend the sum of $300,000.00 from funds previously appropriated in the Violence Prevention and Intervention Fund in Account No. 25-2000-501905-B to provide funding to the Police Foundation of Kansas City for the purpose of assisting the Kansas City Police Department with the acquisition of software that will enhance data integration and operations management. 

 

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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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Samuel Miller

Assistant City Attorney