ORDINANCE NO. 210521

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Accepting and approving a $3,674,514.00 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide funding to facilitate increased vaccinations and improve employee safety conditions in businesses within Kansas City, Missouri, and zip codes with low vaccination rates and high COVID-19 vulnerabilities; estimating and appropriating $2,448,283.00 in the Health Grants Fund; and designating requisitioning authority.

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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That a contract between the City of Kansas City, Missouri, acting through its Director of Health (the “Director”), and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), pursuant to which the CDC will provide funding for COVID-19 interventions for high risk and underserved populations throughout the Kansas City, Missouri, area for the period beginning June 1, 2021, through May 31, 2023, for an amount not to exceed $3,675,514.00, is hereby accepted and approved. A copy of the grant award agreement, in substantial form, is on file with the Director.

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

22-2480-500001-472680-G50507224                     COVID High Risk and                                          $2,448,283.00

                                                                                                            Underserved

Section 3. That the sum of $2,448,283.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Health Grants Fund to the following accounts:

22-2480-505072-A-G50507224                                          COVID High Risk and                                          

                                                                                                            Underserved                                                                  $   758,936.00

22-2480-505072-B-G50507224                                          COVID High Risk and                                          

                                                                                                            Underserved                                                                                      1,667,778.00

22-2480-505072-C-G50507224                                          COVID High Risk and                                             

                                                                                                            Underserved                                                                                           21,569.00  

                                                                                                                                                   TOTAL                                                               $2,448,283.00

                     Section 4. That the Director is designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 22-2480-505072-G50507224 and is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $2,448,283.00 from funds heretofore appropriated to the account.

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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 and legality:

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Eluard Alegre

Assistant City Attorney