ORDINANCE NO. 100273

Appropriating $100,000.00 from the General Fund and authorizing the Acting Director of Neighborhood and Community Services to execute a contract with UMKC Center for Economic Information in the amount of $100,000.00 for provision of a housing conditions survey.

WHEREAS, Committee Substitute for Ordinance No. 090657 was adopted on January 21, 2009, and increased the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the General Fund in the amount of $439,850.51; and

WHEREAS, the ordinance appropriated $300,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the General Fund thereby leaving a balance of $139,850.51; and

WHEREAS, there is a desire to use some of those funds for a housing conditions survey that can be used to guide housing improvement programs and gauge the effectiveness of code enforcement efforts; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That $100,000.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the General Fund to the following account:

10-1000-571000-B NCSD Administration $100,000.00

Section 2. That the Acting Director of Neighborhood and Community Services is hereby authorized to execute a $100,000.00 contract with UMKC Center for Economic Information for the provision of a housing conditions survey from funds appropriated to Account No. 10-1000-571000-B.

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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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Kathy Adams

Assistant City Attorney