File #: 220130    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Referred
File created: 2/3/2022 In control: Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee
On agenda: 2/9/2022 Final action: 8/3/2023
Title: Appropriating $500,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the General Fund to provide funds to certain organizations to support re-entry into communities, food security and mental health, and small business growth; and authorizing the execution of agreements.
Sponsors: Melissa Robinson
Attachments: 1. Fiscal Note 220130, 2. Approp Admin 220130, 3. Speaker Cards 220130 2.16.2022, 4. Fact Sheet - 220130

ORDINANCE NO. 220130

 

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Appropriating $500,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the General Fund to provide funds to certain organizations to support re-entry into communities, food security and mental health, and small business growth; and authorizing the execution of agreements.

 

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WHEREAS, the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), which was signed into law by the President of the United States on March 11, 2021, provides for a State and Local Coronavirus Relief Fund that appropriates $325 billion to states and units of local government to cover costs related to, and address the negative economic impacts associated with, the COVID-19 pandemic; and

 

                     WHEREAS, the City's stimulus spending plan, "RecoverKC," was finalized and adopted by Ordinance No. 210392 by the City Council on May 27, 2021, to establish the costs, uses, and programming for which the City's first tranche of $97,388,188.00 in stimulus funds are purposed; and

                     

                     WHEREAS, the City’s stimulus spending plan, “RecoverKC,” increased the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the City’s General Fund and Parks and Recreation Fund, providing much needed financial relief to the City; and

 

                     WHEREAS, the City endeavors to respond to the needs of its vulnerable populations and this ordinance will provide assistance to communities experiencing economic hardships; NOW, THEREFORE,

 

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1. That the sum of $500,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Balance of the General Fund to the following account:

 

22-1000-571000-B        Neighborhoods & Community Services Administration                      $500,000.00

  

Section 2.  That the Director of Neighborhood Services is authorized to enter into agreements with the following entities in the following amounts for the purpose of providing assistance to communities experiencing economic hardships:

 

Re-Entry Into Communities

The Help KC                                                                                                                              $100,000.00

Twelfth Street Heritage Development Corp.                                          $100,000.00

 

Food Security and Mental Health

                     NourishKC                                                                                                                              $100,000.00

                     Reconciliation Services                                                                                    $100,000.00                     

                     

                     Small Business Growth

                     Kansas City G.I.F.T.                                                                                                         $100,000.00

 

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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