ORDINANCE NO. 240549
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Sponsor: Director of Health Department
Accepting and approving a grant award with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to provide funding for the City’s Public Health Preparedness program; and estimating and appropriating the sum of $334,562.00.
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WHEREAS, the Public Health Preparedness (“PHP”) program allows for the planning, maintenance, and sustainability of the Kansas City Health Department’s (“KCHD”) response capability and capacity so that the KCHD can effectively manage all types of public health emergencies using an “all hazard” approach; and
WHEREAS, the PHP program allows for the development and execution of plans for mass sheltering, mass patient care, large venue public health events and clinics; and
WHEREAS, the PHP program operations allows the KCHD to actively respond with local, regional, and national first responder (Police Fire, EMS) agencies in a coordinated response to events that may have a public health impact; and
WHEREAS, the program supports and maintains the KCHD’s 24/7/365 duty officer notification system allowing the KCHD to receive, process, and respond to public health requests of an emergent nature; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That an amendment for a twelve-month 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 additional funding for the City’s Public Health Preparedness program, which supports public health preparedness capabilities, promotes and prepares resilient communities, and enhances the ability to respond to and recover from all-hazards in the Kansas City, Missouri area, for a period beginning July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025, for an amount not to exceed $335,464.00 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:
25-2480-500001-475560-G50245026 Public Health Emergency $334,562.00
Section 3. That the sum of $334,562.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Health Grants Fund in the following accounts:
25-2480-505409-A-G50245026 Public Health Emergency $242,348.00
25-2480-505409-B-G50245026 Public Health Emergency 62,000.00
25-2480-505409-C-G50245026 Public Health Emergency 30,214.00
TOTAL $334,562.00
Section 4. That the Director is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 25-2480-505409-G50245026 and is authorized to expend the sum of $334,562.00 from funds previously appropriated to the accounts.
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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:
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Joseph A. Guarino
Senior Associate City Attorney