ORDINANCE NO. 260435
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Sponsor: Director of Health Department
Accepting and approving a one-year $631,890.00 contract amendment with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to provide funding for activities of the High Impact HIV Prevention and Surveillance Program; estimating and appropriating the sum of $631,890.00 in the Health Grants Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, this award will enable the Kansas City Health Department's ("KCHD") HIV Prevention program and sub-recipient agencies to conduct outreach testing and education to high risk populations including African American females, African American men who have sex with men, LatinX, and white men who have sex with men and Transgender women; and
WHEREAS, in a calendar year 24 Kansas City Health Department’s HIV Prevention Program and sub-recipient agencies conducted 186 testing events, tested or referred HIV testing to nearly 1,500 people in the community, distributed over 216,000 condoms, provided 66 presentations, conducted 397 community outreach activities, and participated in 48 community-wide events to promote HIV testing, HIV prevention methods, and safe sex strategies and resources; NOW, THERFORE,
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 Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services ("DHSS"), whereby DHSS will provide additional funding for the City's High Impact HIV Prevention and Surveillance Program, which will conduct outreach, testing, and education to high risk populations including African American females, African American men who have sex with men, LatinX, and White men who have sex with men and Transgender women for the period of June 1, 2026 through May 31, 2027, for a total award not to exceed $631,890.00 is hereby accepted and approved. A copy of the contract, 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:
27-2480-500001-472300-G50241928 High Impact HIV Prev and Surv $631,890.00
Section 3. That the sum of $631,890.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Health Grants Fund in the following accounts:
27-2480-505445-A-G50241928 High Impact HIV Prev and Surv $292,534.64
27-2480-505445-B-G50241928 High Impact HIV Prev and Surv 292,866.00
27-2480-505445-C-G50241928 High Impact HIV Prev and Surv 46,489.36
TOTAL $631,890.00
Section 4. That the Director of Health is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 27-2480-505445-G50241928 and is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $631,890.00 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