COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR ORDINANCE NO. 081274
Authorizing acceptance and
approval of a grant from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City in
the amount of $124,000.00; establishing a contract with the Kansas City Free
Health Clinic and Legal Aid of Western Missouri; estimating revenue and appropriating
the sum of $124,000.00 to the Health Care Foundation Grant account; designating
requisitioning authority; and recognizing an emergency.
WHEREAS the
Kansas City Free Health Clinic will provide HIV testing for all drug court
participants to identify participants who are HIV-positive; and
WHEREAS Legal
Aid of Western Missouri will provide drug court participants with legal
assistance to obtain Medicaid and Social Security benefits for those who are
eligible; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED
BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That
the Administrator of Municipal Court is hereby authorized to accept a grant
from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City in the amount of
$124,000.00, establishing a partnership among the Municipal Division Drug
Court, Kansas City Free Health Clinic, and Legal Aid of Western Missouri, for
the purpose of assisting those living with HIV to use the services of the
Municipal Drug Court if found guilty of any City ordinance violation.
Section 2. That
the revenue in the following amount of the 2009 Health Care Foundation Grant is
hereby estimated in the following amount:
09-1000-270001-480505 Health
Care Foundation Grant $124,000.00
Section 3. That
the sum of $124,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund
Balance of the General Fund to the following account in the General Fund:
09-1000-275800-A Health
Care Foundation Grant $ 37,677.00
09-1000-275800-B Health
Care Foundation Grant $ 85,323.00
09-1000-275800-C Health
Care Foundation Grant $ 1,000.00
TOTAL $124,000.00
Section 4. That
the Administrator of Municipal Court is designated as requisitioning authority
for Account No. 09-1000-275800.
Section 5. That
this ordinance is recognized as an emergency measure within the provisions of
Section 503 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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Jeffrey
A. Yates
Director
of Finance
Approved
as to form and legality:
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Joseph
Guarino
Assistant City Attorney