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File #: 250490    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Referred
File created: 6/4/2025 In control: Council
On agenda: 6/26/2025 Final action:
Title: Sponsor: Director of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity Department Accepting and approving a $100,000.00 grant award from the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund, Inc. (the "CFE Fund"); estimating revenues and appropriating funds in the amount of $100,000.00 to the General Grants Fund; designating requisitioning authority; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsors: Director of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity
Attachments: 1. Docket Memo TMP-5635, 2. Copy of Approp--Admin---CityStart.pdf, 3. 2025 CityStart MOU - Kansas City - CLEAN revised version 6-10, 4. Ord. 250490 CFE Fund PPT

ORDINANCE NO. 250490

 

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Sponsor: Director of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity Department

 

Accepting and approving a $100,000.00 grant award from the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund, Inc. (the “CFE Fund”); estimating revenues and appropriating funds in the amount of $100,000.00 to the General Grants Fund; designating requisitioning authority; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

 

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WHEREAS, the CFE Fund works to support municipal engagement to improve the financial stability of low and moderate income households by embedding financial empowerment strategies into local government infrastructure; and

 

WHEREAS, the CFE Fund has determined that the support of the City of Kansas City in the work performed by the Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity Department furthers the express purposes of the CFE Fund; NOW, THEREFORE,

 

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1.  That a $100,000.00 grant award from the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund, Inc. is hereby accepted and approved. A copy of the grant, in substantial form, is on file with the Director of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity.

 

Section 2.  That revenue in the amount of $100,000.00 is hereby estimated to the following account in the General Grants Fund:

 

26-2580-540001-487985-G54CTYSTRT                      CREO Grant Revenue                                                               $100,000.00

 

Section 3.  That funds in the amount of $100,000 are appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the General Grants Fund in the following accounts:

 

26-2580-545315-B-G54CTYSTRT                                          Private Foundation Grants                                          $  30,000.00

26-2580-545315-C-G54CTYSTRT                                          Private Foundation Grants                                              70,000.00

                                                                                                                                                   TOTAL                                                               $100,000.00

 

Section 4.  That the Director of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 26-2580-545315

 

Section 5.  That this ordinance relating to the appropriation of money and the expenses of government is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Section 503(a)(3) (B) and Section 503(a)(3)(C) of the City Charter and shall take effect in accordance with Section 503, City Charter.

 

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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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Julian Langenkamp

Associate City Attorney