ORDINANCE NO. 061117

Accepting and approving a one-year $4,000.00 grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide funding to more clearly analyze and identify the factors that contribute to the high rate of Infant Mortality in Kansas City, Missouri and produce a report on those findings; establishing revenue in the amount of $4,000.00 in the Governmental Grants Fund and increasing appropriations in the amount $4,000.00 in the Governmental Grants Fund.

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 U.S. of Health and Human Services, acting through its Director of Administration, whereby an analysis of factors contributing to the high rate of infant mortality in Kansas City will be conducted and a report created on those findings for the period beginning August 1, 2006 through July 31, 2007, for an amount not to exceed $4,000.00, is hereby accepted and approved. A copy of the contract, in substantial form, is attached hereto and made a part hereof by reference.

Section 2. That the revenue in the following account of the Governmental Grants Fund is hereby established in the following amount:

07-2480-500001-472010 Infant Mortality Analysis $4,000.00

Section 3. That appropriations in the following accounts of the Governmental Grants Fund are hereby increased in the following amounts:

07-2480-505012-A Infant Mortality Analysis $3,400.00

07-2480-505012-B Infant Mortality Analysis 400.00

07-2480-505012-C Infant Mortality Analysis 200.00

TOTAL $4,000.00

Section 4. That the Director of Health is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 07-2480-505012.

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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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Debra R. Hinsvark

Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Joseph Guarino

Assistant City Attorney