ORDINANCE NO. 240868
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Sponsor: Director of Health Department
Accepting and approving a $526,575.00 contract with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to provide funding for activities of the High Impact HIV Prevention and Surveillance Program; estimating and appropriating $526,575.00 in the Health Grants Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and the Ending the HIV Epidemic campaign seek to prevent new infections and end the epidemic through increasing efforts to diagnose, treat, and respond to outbreaks; and
WHREAS, this award enables the Kansas City Health Department's HIV Prevention program and sub-recipient agencies to provide counseling testing and referral services and conduct outreach testing and education to high-risk populations including African American females, African American men who have sex with men, LatinX, and White men who have sex with men, and Transgender Women; and
WHEREAS, CDC Grant PS18-1802: Integrated Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Surveillance and Prevention Programs for Health Departments and CDC Grant PS20-2010: Integrated HIV Programs for Health Departments to Support Ending the HIV Epidemic in the United States ended on July 31, 2024 and were effectively replaced by CDC Grant PS24-0047: High-Impact HIV Prevention and Surveillance Programs for Health Departments; NOW, THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That a contract between the City of Kansas City, Missouri, acting through its Director of Health, and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, whereby the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services will provide funding for the High Impact HIV Prevention and Surveillance Program to conduct outreach, testing, and education to high risk populations including African American females, African American men who have sex with men, LatinX, and White men who have sex with men and Transgender women for the period August 1, 2024 through May 31, 2025, for a total award not to exceed $526,575.00, is hereby accepted and approved. A copy of the contract, 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:
25-2480-500001-472300-G50241926 High Impact HIV Prev and Surv $526,575.00
Section 3. That the sum of $526,575.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Health Grants Fund in the following accounts:
25-2480-505445-A-G50241926 High Impact HIV Prev and Surv $299,363.09
25-2480-505445-B-G50241926 High Impact HIV Prev and Surv 227,211.91
TOTAL $526,575.00
Section 4. That the Director of Health is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 25-2480-505445-G50241926 and is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $526,575.00 from funds heretofore appropriated.
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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Tammy L. Queen
Director of Finance
Approved as to form:
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Joseph A. Guarino
Senior Associate City Attorney