ORDINANCE NO. 010196

Awarding contracts for health insurance and authorizing the Director of Human Resources to renew the contract with FirstGuard Health Plan and enter into a contract with Coventry Health Care of Kansas, Inc. for health insurance benefits for City employees for the period of May 1, 2001 to April 30, 2002.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the City Council hereby awards a renewal contract with FirstGuard Health Plan and a new contract with Coventry Health Care of Kansas, Inc. for health insurance benefits for City employees for the period of May 1, 2001 through April 30, 2002, and the Director of Human Resources is hereby authorized to execute these contracts, contingent upon annual appropriation of funds.

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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