ORDINANCE
NO. 160716
Accepting and approving a one
year $428,000.00 contract with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior
Services to provide funding for the Building Blocks Home Visiting program that
promotes a healthy and safe parenting and home environment.
BE IT ORDAINED
BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That a
contract between the City of Kansas City, Missouri, acting through 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 to the Building Blocks of
Missouri program which promotes improved outcomes in pregnancy and child health
through the development of better women’s health practices, responsible and
competent care for their children, and family counseling for the period
beginning October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2017, for an amount not to
exceed $428,000.00, is hereby accepted and approved. A copy of the contract, in
substantial form, is on file with the Director of Health.
Section 2. That
the Director of Health is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $280,215.00, from
funds appropriated to Account No. 17-2480-505017-G50501717 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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Randall
J. Landes
Director
of Finance
Approved
as to form and legality:
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Joseph
Guarino
Assistant City Attorney