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File #: 250407    Version: Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 4/24/2025 In control: Council
On agenda: 5/22/2025 Final action: 5/22/2025
Title: Sponsor: Director of the Health Department COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE Authorizing the Chief Procurement Officer to execute a 31/2-year $1,255,975.00 sole source contract with Justice Systems Partners (JSP) for Violence Prevention Fund Evaluation Services from previously appropriated funds.
Sponsors: Director of Health
Attachments: 1. JSP VPF Evaluation Docket Memo, 2. 250407 cs to org ord-com, 3. Authenticated Ordinance 250407 CS
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[COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR] ORDINANCE NO. 250407

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Sponsor: Director of the Health Department
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

Authorizing the Chief Procurement Officer to execute a 31/2-year $1,255,975.00 sole source contract with Justice Systems Partners (JSP) for Violence Prevention Fund Evaluation Services from previously appropriated funds.

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WHEREAS, program evaluation is essential to determine effectiveness, guide improvements, and ensure the efficient allocation of resources in alignment with established goals; and

WHEREAS, JSP's expertise in justice-based and community-driven interventions, and experience in tracking and evaluating progress makes them uniquely qualified to provide this service; and

WHEREAS, the Evaluator who has tracked progress in the Violence Prevention Fund projects, Marijana Kotlaja, has now transitioned to JSP, and this contract will ensure continuity of ongoing evaluation of the program's effectiveness in real time; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the Chief Procurement Officer is authorized to execute a 31/2-year sole source contract with Justice Systems Partners, for a total contract amount not to exceed $1,255,975.00 for the provision of evaluation services for the Violence Prevention Fund to be paid from funds appropriated in Account No. 26-2000-501905-B. A copy of the contract, in substantial form, is on file with the Director of Health.

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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

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