ORDINANCE NO. 080163

Accepting and approving a $237,050.00 contract amendment with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to provide additional funding for the Citys public health preparedness program and to support Local Public Health Agency planning efforts to respond to a bioterrorism attack over a large geographic area; increasing revenue and appropriation in the amount of $176,741.00 in the Governmental Grants Fund

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That a contract agreement between the City of Kansas City, Missouri, acting though its Director of Health, and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, acting through its Director of Administration, whereby the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services will provide funding for planning support for local health agencies to give them the ability to take action in the event of a large scale bioterrorism attack in Kansas City, Missouri and surrounding metropolitan area for a period beginning September 1, 2007 through August 8, 2008, for an amount not to exceed $726,945.00, is hereby accepted and approved. A copy of the contract, in substantial form, is attached hereto and made a part hereof by reference.

Section 2. That the revenue in the following account of the Governmental Grants Fund is hereby estimated in the following amount:

08-2480-500001-477255 Cities Readiness Initiative $176,741.00

Section 3. That the appropriations in the following accounts of the Governmental Grants Fund are hereby increased by the following amounts:

08-2480-505014-A Cities Readiness Initiative $ 63,333.00

08-2480-505014-B Cities Readiness Initiative 31,675.00

08-2480-505014-C Cities Readiness Initiative 50,000.00

08-2480-505014-E Cities Readiness Initiative 31,733.00

TOTAL $176,741.00

Section 4. That the Director of Health is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $176,741.00 from funds heretofore appropriated to Account No. 08-2480-505014 for the aforesaid contract.

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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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Wanda Gunter

Acting Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Joseph Guarino

Assistant City Attorney