ORDINANCE NO. 230860
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Sponsor: Director of the Municipal Court
Accepting a five-year grant in the amount of $2,000,000.00 ($400,000.00 each year for five years) from the Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to continue and enhance the services and programing of the Kansas City Municipal Drug Court; estimating and appropriating $2,000,000.00 in the General Grant Fund; designating requisitioning authority; and recognizing an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, since 2002, the Kansas City Municipal Drug Court (“Drug Court”) has provided an intensive, comprehensive, court-supervised program, as well as aftercare, for defendants who exhibit signs of chronic and severe substance use problems with the focus of helping the participant improve their life and health by becoming free and clean of substance use; and
WHEREAS, Drug Court participants are treated using evidence-based practices consistent with the substance use disorders disease model and the problem-solving model, rather than with the traditional court case-processing model; and
WHEREAS, the target population of Drug Court includes adult defendants diagnosed with a substance use disorder as their primary condition and those who have co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders and trauma treatment needs; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the Court Administrator, on behalf of the City of Kansas City, Missouri, is authorized to accept a $2,000,000.00 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to continue and enhance the services and programing of the Kansas City Municipal Drug Court.
Section 2. That the revenue in the following account of the General Grants Fund is hereby estimated in the following amount:
24-2580-270001-479660-G27SAMH23 SAMHSA KCMDC $2,000,000.00
Section 3. That the sum of $2,000,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the General Grants Fund to the following account of the General Grants Fund:
24-2580-275020-B-G27SAMH23 SAMHSA KCMDC $2,000,000.00
Section 4. That the Administrator of Municipal Court is designated requisitioning authority for Account No. 24-2580-275020.
Section 5. That this ordinance, appropriating money, is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by 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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Andrew Bonkowski
Assistant City Attorney