ORDINANCE
NO. 150282
Authorizing the Director of
Neighborhoods and Housing Services to enter into contracts up to $5,187,748.00
with various organizations to provide public facility, housing, economic
development, homeless, youth, senior, and social services from Community
Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) and
Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funding approved in the 2015 One-Year Action
Plan; authorizing the Director of Health to enter into contracts up to
$1,053,587.00 with agencies to provide transitional housing and rental
assistance from Homeless Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) funds
approved in the 2015 One-Year Action Plan; authorizing the Director of
Neighborhoods and Housing Services to enter into a contract for $139,000.00 for
the Continuum of Care homeless planning; and designating requisitioning
authority.
WHEREAS, on
March 5, 2015, through Resolution No. 141095, the Council approved the 2015
One-Year Action Plan; and
WHEREAS,
execution of contracts will provide needed housing services, public services,
facility improvements, and other services as outlined in the 2015 One-Year
Action Plan; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED
BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That
the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services is authorized to enter into
and execute, on behalf of the City, contracts with the agencies identified and
the amounts indicated in the following sections to provide various services.
Copies of the contracts, in substantial form, are on file in the office of the
Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services.
Section 2. That
the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services is authorized to expend up
to $850,000.00 from funds appropriated to the Community Development Block Grant
Fund in Account No. 16-2600-575324-B-G57CDBG15 to satisfy the cost of the
following public facilities contracts:
Cristo Rey $
100,000.00
TYCOR 75,000.00
YMCA 200,000.00
reStart 100,000.00
Palestine Senior
Center 100,000.00
Niles Home 175,000.00
Community Linc 100,000.00
TOTAL $
850,000.00
Section 3. That
the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services is authorized to expend up
to $125,000.00 from funds appropriated to the Community Development Block Grant
Fund in Account No. 16-2600-575308-B-G57CDBG15 to satisfy the cost of the
following economic development contract:
Hispanic
Economic Development Corporation $
75,000.00
Justine Peterson 50,000.00
TOTAL $
125,000.00
Section 4. That
the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services is authorized to expend up
to $1,200,000.00 from funds appropriated to the Community Development Block
Grant Fund in Account No. 16-2600-575313-B-G57CDBG15 to satisfy the cost of the
following housing rehabilitation contracts:
Ivanhoe
Neighborhood Council $
250,000.00
Neighborhood
Housing Services 200,000.00
Blue Hills
Community Services 250,000.00
Northland
Neighborhoods, Inc. 250,000.00
Westside Housing
Organization, Inc.
250,000.00
TOTAL $1,200,000.00
Section 5. That
the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services is authorized to expend up
to $549,000.00 from funds appropriated to the Community Development Block Grant
Fund in Account No. 16-2600-575312-B-G57CDBG15 to satisfy the cost of the
following children and youth services contracts:
Operation
Breakthrough, Inc. $
140,000.00
Boys and Girls
Clubs of Greater KC 80,000.00
Mattie Rhodes
Center 45,000.00
Rose Brooks 39,000.00
Greenworks KC 18,000.00
United Inner
City Services 78,000.00
Urban Ranger
Corps 52,000.00
Guadalupe
Centers, Inc. 97,000.00
TOTAL $
549,000.00
Section 6. That
the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services is authorized to expend up
to $65,000.00 from funds appropriated to the Community Development Block Grant
Fund in Account No. 16-2600-575311-B-G57CDBG15 to satisfy the cost of the
following social service contract:
Kansas City
Community Gardens $
65,000.00
Section 7. That
the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services is authorized to expend up
to $657,000.00 from funds appropriated to the Community Development Block Grant
Fund in Account No. 16-2600-575315-B-G57CDBG15 to satisfy the cost of the
following homeless prevention and housing counseling contracts:
Benilde Hall $
33,000.00
Community
Assistance Council, Inc. 170,000.00
Greater Kansas
City Housing Information Center 170,000.00
reStart, Inc. 119,000.00
Sheffield Place 65,000.00
Guadalupe
Centers, Inc. 100,000.00
TOTAL $
657,000.00
Section 8. That
the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services is authorized to expend up
to $51,000.00 from funds appropriated to the Community Development Block Grant
Fund in Account No. 16-2600-575316-B-G55CDBG15 to satisfy the cost of the
following senior services contract:
Palestine Senior
Citizen Activity Center $
51,000.00
Section 9. That
the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services is authorized to expend up
to $620,948.00 from Emergency Solutions Grant funds appropriated to the
Neighborhoods Grants Fund in Account No. 16-2580-575201-B-G57ESG15 to satisfy
the cost of the following homeless services contracts:
Community LINC,
Inc. $
89,606.00
reStart, Inc. 111,672.00
Benilde Hall 65,074.00
Newhouse 110,860.00
Rose Brooks 151,376.00
Journey to New
Life, Inc 92,360.00
TOTAL $
620,948.00
Section 10.
That the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services is authorized to expend
up to $1,069,836.00, including contingencies, from funds appropriated to the
HOME Investment Fund in Account No. 16-2940-575326-B-G57HOME15 to satisfy the
cost of the following housing development contracts:
Blue
Hills Community Services (CHDO) $
249,836.00
Blue Hills
Community Services 230,000.00
Neighborhood
Housing Services 250,000.00
Brinshore
Development, LLC 340,000.00
TOTAL $
1,069,836.00
Section 11.
That the Director of Health is authorized to expend up to $1,053,587.00 from
funds appropriated to the Housing Opportunities for Persons with Aids Fund in
Account No. 16-2740-505004-B to satisfy the cost of the following transitional
housing and rental assistance contracts:
reStart $
63,215.00
SAVE, Inc. 990,372.00
TOTAL $
1,053,587.00
Section 12. That
the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services is authorized to expend up
to $139,000.00 from funds appropriated to the General Fund in Account No.
16-1000-572034-B to satisfy the cost of the Continuum of Care homeless planning
contract:
Homeless
Services Coalition of Greater Kansas City $
139,000.00
Section 13.
That the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services is designated as
requisition authority for following Account Nos. 16-2600-575315,
16-2600-575312, 16-2600-575316, 16-2600-575324, 16-2600-575313, 16-2600-575311,
16-2600-575308, 16-2940-575326, 16-2740-505004, 16-1000-572034, and
16-2580-575201.
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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.
______________________________
Randall J. Landes
Director of Finance
Approved as to form and legality:
______________________________
Nicole Rowlette
Assistant City Attorney