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.

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Randall J. Landes

Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Nicole Rowlette

Assistant City Attorney