COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR ORDINANCE NO. 120668
Accepting and approving a grant
to the City of $4,528,440.00 over two years from the United States Department
of Homeland Security Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER)
program; estimating revenue in the amount of $4,528,440.00 in the Fire Sales
Tax Fund; designating requisitioning authority; and recognizing an emergency.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF
KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That
the Fire Chief is hereby authorized to accept a grant from the United States
Department of Homeland Security Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency
Response (SAFER) program in the amount of $4,528,440.00 to be paid over two
years according to a decreasing Federal share formula.
Section. 2. That
the revenue in the following account of the Fire Sales Tax Fund is hereby
estimated in the following amount for FY 2012-2013:
13-2300-235008-478395 USFA
SAFER Grant $4,528,440.00
Section 3. That
the sum of $4,528,440.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund
Balance of the Fire Sales Tax Fund to the following account in the Fire Sales
Tax Fund:
13-2300-235008-A USFA
SAFER Grant $4,528,440.00
Section 4. That
the Fire Chief is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No
13-2300-235008.
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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Randall
J. Landes
Director
of Finance
Approved
as to form and legality:
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Alan
Holtkamp
Assistant City Attorney