ORDINANCE NO. 250826
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Sponsor: Director of Health Department
Accepting and approving a $1,500,000.00 grant award with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services that provides funding for the Epidemiology & Laboratory Capacity Enhancing Detection Expansion Reinstatement; estimating and appropriating $1,500,000.00 in the Health Grants Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS the City of Kansas City, Missouri was previously awarded a grant for epidemiology & laboratory capacity enhancing detection expansion; and
WHEREAS, said grant was terminated by the grantor agency, resulting in an interruption of funding and program delivery; and
WHEREAS, litigation was initiated challenging the termination of the grant, and through legal proceedings the grant award has now been reinstated; and
WHEREAS, the reinstatement of the grant will allow the City to restore and continue activities initially authorized under the grant agreement; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That a grant award 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 funding for epidemiology & laboratory capacity enhancing detection expansion, for an amount not to exceed $1,500,000.00 is hereby accepted and approved. A copy of the award, 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:
26-2480-500001-472610-G50506924 Epidemiology & Laboratory $1,500,000.00
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Section 3. That the sum of $1,500,00.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Health Grants Fund in the following accounts:
26-2480-505069-C-G50506924 Epidemiology & Laboratory
Capacity $ 750,000.00
26-2480-505069-E-G50506924 Epidemiology & Laboratory
Capacity 750,000.00
TOTAL $1,500,000.00
Section 4. That the Director is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 26-2480-505069-G50506924 and is authorized to expend the sum of $1,500,000.00.
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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William Choi
Interim Director of Finance
Approved as to form:
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Joseph A. Guarino
Senior Associate City Attorney