ORDINANCE NO. 260644
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Sponsor: Director of Health Department
Accepting and approving a grant award amendment in the amount of $190,160.00 with Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services for the City's Cities Readiness Initiative program; estimating and appropriating the sum of $190,160.00 in the Health Grants Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, the Cities Readiness Initiative ("CRI") works to enhance and expand the public health response capacity while building a more focused approach to large scale medication dispensing and vaccination operations; and
WHEREAS, the Cities Readiness Initiative ("CRI") evaluates the City’s ability to provide mass medication dispensing to the entire population within 24 to 48 hours through a system of “Open” and “Closed” Points of Dispensing (PODs), ensuring readiness for both public and pre-arranged organizational response needs; NOW, THEREFORE;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY
Section 1. That a $190,160.00 award amendment between the City of Kansas City, Missouri, acting though its Director of Health (the "Director"), and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services ("DHSS"), whereby DHSS will provide additional funding for the City's Cities Readiness Initiative program, for a period beginning July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027, for an amount not to exceed $190,160.00 is hereby accepted and approved. A copy of the agreement, in substantial form, is on file with the Director of Health.
Section 2. That revenue in the following account of the Health Grants Fund is hereby estimated in the following amount:
27-2480-500001-477255-G50501427 Cities Readiness Initiative 27 $190,160.00
Section 3. That the sum of $190,160.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Health Grants Fund in the following accounts:
27-2480-505014-A-G50501427 Cities Readiness Initiative 27 $139,438.53
27-2480-505014-B-G50501427 Cities Readiness Initiative 27 5,661.97
27-2480-505014-C-G50501427 Cities Readiness Initiative 27 45,059.50
TOTAL $190,160.00
Section 4. That the Director is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 27-2480-505014-G50501427 and is authorized to expend the sum of $190,160.00 from funds previously appropriated to the accounts.
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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Brenton Siverly
Director of Finance
Approved as to form:
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Joseph A. Guarino
Senior Associate City Attorney