ORDINANCE NO. 241014
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Sponsor: City Manager’s Office
Authorizing acceptance from the Missouri Emergency Management Agency of grant funds from the Fiscal Year 2024 Emergency Management Performance Grant in the amount of $126,693.51; estimating revenue and appropriating the sum of $126,693.51 to the General Grants Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, the Emergency Management Performance Grant is a 50/50 cost share for administrative expenses and includes a requirement to expend at least 25% on planning activities; and
WHEREAS, these funds will be used to offset emergency management staff salaries, maintenance of the tornado outdoor warning sirens, and eligible equipment for Emergency Operations Center operations related to training and planning purposes, and other expenses determined eligible under the grant requirements; and
WHEREAS, the City match of $126,693.53 will come from existing appropriations for the operating budget of Emergency Operations Center in account string 1000-105430-A-G10EMPG24; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the City Manager is hereby authorized to accept grant funds from the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency for the FY24 Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) in the amount of $126,693.51.
Section 2. That revenue in the General Grants Fund is hereby estimated in the following amount:
25-2580-100001-471970-G10EMPG24 Emergency Management
Performance Grant $126,693.51
Section 3. That the sum of $126,693.51 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the General Grants Fund to the following account:
25-2580-105430-A-G10EMPG24 Emergency Management
Performance Grant $126,693.51
Section 4. That the City Manager is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 25-2580-105430-A-G13EMPG24 and 25-1000-105430-A-G10EMPG24.
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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Alan Holtkamp
Senior Associate City Attorney