ORDINANCE NO. 941433

Approving and accepting an agreement with the Missouri Department of Health whereby the State will provide $38,004.00 in funding for support for a Sickle Cell Resource Center in Kansas City for one year beginning July 1, 1994; authorizing the Director of Health to enter into an agreement with Truman Medical Center to establish and operate that center for which the City will provide $36,864.00 in funding; and providing for the cost of administering the agreements.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the agreement between the State of Missouri, Department of Health, acting through its Director of Health, and the Health Department of Kansas City, Missouri, acting through its Director of Health, whereby the State will provide $38,004.00 in funds to allow for the adequate follow-up of sickle cell patients after they visit the emergency room, as well as management through hospitalization and with discharge planning and outpatient management in accordance with guidelines set forth by the Missouri Department of Health for a period of one year beginning July 1, 1994, is hereby accepted and approved. A copy of the agreement is attached hereto and made a part hereof by reference.

Section 2. That the Director of Health is hereby authorized, on behalf of the City, to enter into an agreement with the Truman Medical Center, whereby the Center will establish a Sickle Cell Resource Center for a period of one year beginning July 1, 1994 through June 30, 1995, for which the City will provide funding in an amount not to exceed $36,864.00 from funds previously appropriated in Account No. 95-100-050-2320-B. A copy of the agreement is attached hereto and made a part hereof by reference.

Section 3. That the amount of $1,140.00 as specified in those agreements may be retained by the Health Department to partially offset the costs of administering the agreements and may be used for such purposes as shall be determined by the Director of Health.

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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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Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Assistant City Attorney