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File #: 260048    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Referred
File created: 1/4/2026 In control: Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee
On agenda: 1/27/2026 Final action:
Title: Sponsor: Director of Health Department Accepting and approving a $300,000.00 twelve-month grant award agreement from the Health Forward Foundation for the continuation of the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) program at the Kansas City, Missouri Health Department; estimating and appropriating $300,000.00 in the Health Grants Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsors: Director of Health
Attachments: 1. Health Forward Grant G50583926 NFP Docket Memo, 2. Health Forward G50583926 Admin-Approp Sheet

ORDINANCE NO. 260048

 

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Sponsor: Director of Health Department

 

Accepting and approving a $300,000.00 twelve-month grant award agreement from the Health Forward Foundation for the continuation of the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) program at the Kansas City, Missouri Health Department; estimating and appropriating $300,000.00 in the Health Grants Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

 

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WHEREAS, the Nurse-Family Partnership is an evidence-based community health program that pairs first-time, low-income mothers with registered nurses early in pregnancy and provides bi-weekly home visits through the child’s second birthday to promote maternal and child health, supported in part by funds from the Health Forward Foundation; and

 

WHEREAS, funding from the Health Forward Foundation supports the Health Department’s continued implementation and sustainability of the Nurse-Family Partnership program, enabling the delivery of evidence-based services to families across the Kansas City region; NOW, THEREFORE

 

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1. That a twelve-month grant amendment between the City of Kansas City, Missouri, acting though its Director of Health, and the Health Forward Foundation, whereby Health Forward Foundation will provide funding for the City's Nurse Family Partnership program 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:

 

26-2480-500001-479977- G50583926                     Health Forward Crisis Response                     $300,000.00

 

Section 3. That the sum of $300,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Health Grants Fund in the following account:

 

26-2480-505839-A-G50583926                                          Health Forward Crisis Response                     $300,000.00

 

Section 4. That the Director is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 26-2480-505839-G50583926 and is authorized to expend the sum of $300,000.00 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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William Choi

Interim Director of Finance

 

Approved as to form:

 

 

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Joseph A. Guarino

Senior Associate City Attorney




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