ORDINANCE NO. 250788
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Sponsor: Director of Health Department
Accepting and approving a one-year $130,699.60 grant award with Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to coordinate services for children and youth with special health care needs; estimating and appropriating the sum of $130,699.60 in the Health Grants Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date
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WHEREAS, this funding provides service coordination for children and youth from birth to age twenty-one residing in Jackson, Cass, Clay, Platte, and Ray Counties who are at increased risk of chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional conditions and who require more extensive health-related services than typically needed; and
WHEREAS, the Program acts as a payer of last resort by assisting medically eligible children and youth whose families also meet financial eligibility guidelines, and supports early identification, timely referral, and coordination of diagnostic and treatment services to promote healthy growth and development; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That a one-year grant award between the City of Kansas City, Missouri, acting though its Director of Health (the "Director"), and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services ("DHSS"), whereby DHSS will provide additional funding for the City's Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs program in the Kansas City, Missouri area, for a period beginning July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026, for an amount not to exceed $130,699.60 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:
26-2480-500001-472880-G50542627B Children with Special Health $130,699.60
Section 3. That the sum of $130,699.60 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Health Grants Fund in the following accounts:
26-2480-505426-A-G50542627B Children with Special Health $116,844.00
26-2480-505426-B-G50542627B Children with Special Health 2,324.60
26-2480-505426-C-G50542627B Children with Special Health 11,531.00
TOTAL $130,699.60
Section 4. That the Director is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 26-2480-505426-G50542627B and is authorized to expend the sum of $130,699.60 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