ORDINANCE NO. 260954
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Sponsor: Director of Neighborhood Services Department
Accepting and approving a $49,000.00 grant award from the Missouri Department of Conservation, through a cooperative agreement, to educate about native plants by providing training for City staff and the general public and increase the number of Missouri native plants within the Kansas City landscape by providing residents with vouchers and landscape consultations; estimating and appropriating $49,000.00 in Fund 2580; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, increasing native plants in Kansas City’s landscape will contribute towards the City of Kansas City, Missouri’s efforts to achieve carbon neutrality, expand natural areas, and meet additional goals outlined in the City’s Climate Protection & Resiliency Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Natural Systems section of the Climate Protection & Resiliency Plan specifically contains Short-Term Action N-1.3: Promote and incentivize the use of native plants, grasses, shrubs, groundcover, and trees; and
WHEREAS, the Missouri Department of Conservation is providing a second Cooperative Agreement to the City of Kansas City, Office of Environmental Quality, for financial support in the form of a fixed grant award to fund an educational program that both trains City staff and the public and offers landscape consultation services and starter native plant vouchers for citizens wanting to convert their standard lawns to managed natural landscapes; and
WHEREAS, the Cooperative Agreement between the City of Kansas City, Missouri Office of Environmental Quality and the Missouri Department of Conservation awards a fixed sum of $49,000.00 to supply citizens with resources to install and maintain native plants; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the revenue in the amount of $49,000.00 is hereby estimated in the following account of the Fund 2580:
27-2580-570001-478440-G57MODOC26 2026 Residential Naive Plant $49,000.00
Section 2. That the sum of $49,000.00 is hereby appropriated in the following account of the Fund 2580:
27-2580-571436-619080-G57MODOC26 2026 Residential Naive Plant $49,000.00
Section 3. That one-year grant funding in the amount of $49,000.00 between the City of Kansas City, Missouri, acting through its Office of Environmental Quality, and the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC), whereby MDC will provide funding beginning July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027, for a total grant award amount not to exceed $49,000.00, is hereby accepted and approved. A copy of the award, in substantial form is attached hereto and made a part hereof by reference.
Section 4. That the Office of Environmental Quality Chief Environmental Officer is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $49,000.00 from funds appropriated to Account No. 27-2580-571436-619080-G57MODOC26 for the aforesaid contract.
Section 5. That this ordinance relating to the appropriation of 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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Brenton Siverly
Director of Finance
Approved as to form:
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Andrew Bonkowski
Assistant City Attorney