RESOLUTION NO. 260441
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Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Robinson
RESOLUTION - Directing the City Manager to increase indigent care funding in the amount of $140,000.00 for Swope Health Services as part of first quarter FY2026-27 budget analysis, and later quarters if necessary, subject to availability of funds in the Health Levy Fund.
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WHEREAS, Swope Health Services ("Swope") receives indigent care funding from the City's Health Levy through an annual contract; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 080357 appropriated $2.1 million bond proceeds for improvements at the Swope Ridge Geriatric Center and the City has historically used the Health Levy Fund to make debt service payments on this debt and the FY2026-2027 adopted budget included a debt service payment totaling $153,000.00 from the Health Levy Fund related to this bond issuance; and
WHEREAS, in Committee Substitutes for Ordinance Nos. 240455 and 250669, the City awarded Swope $9,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Health Levy Fund as a contribution toward development of the Swope Health Village project at 5900 Swope; and
WHEREAS, Swope Health Village is a planned 12-acre property consisting of 200 units of senior affordable housing and 75 units of mental health housing, supported by comprehensive mental health services; and
WHEREAS, the City FY2026-2027 budget amendment process included a $1,000,000.00 proportional reallocation of Health Levy dollars from Kansas City Assessment & Triage Center (KCATC) to safety net providers to add to their FY26-27 indigent care contracts; and
WHEREAS, Swope Health was excluded from the proportional reallocation partly due to its receipt of $9,000,000.00 from the Health Levy Fund; and
WHEREAS, the $9,000,000.00 towards development of Swope Health Village was independent of any health levy funds towards indigent care and should not have precluded Swope from receiving its proportional share of the $1,000,000...
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