ORDINANCE NO. 140102

Estimating revenue and appropriating $400,000.00 in the HOME Investment Fund; authorizing the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services Department to enter into a contract with Neighborhood Housing Services of Kansas City, Inc. to acquire, rehabilitate and sell houses to low income persons in the Manheim Park Target Area through HOME Investment Partnership Program from funding approved in the 2012 One Year Action Plan; and designating requisitioning authority.

WHEREAS, on March 8, 2012, through Committee Substitute for Resolution No. 120159, the Council approved the 2012 One-Year Action Plan; and

WHEREAS, on March 8, 2012, City Council passed Committee Substitute for Resolution No. 120159 which approved the 2012-2016 Consolidated Five Year Plan and the revised 2012 One Year Action Plan; and

WHEREAS, the Five Year Consolidated Plan (“Plan”) identified seven target areas which include: the Heart of the City, Greater Downtown, Swope, Midtown/Plaza, Hickman Mills/Ruskin, Briarcliff/Winnwood and Truman Plaza and the Plan further identified specific sub-target areas in which single family housing development and minor home repair services are to be implemented; and

WHEREAS, one of those sub-target areas is the Manheim Park Target Area, located generally from 43rd to 44th Street along Tracy Avenue; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That revenue in the amount of $400,000.00 is estimated in the HOME Investment Fund in the following account in the HOME Investment Fund:

14-2940-550001-476050-G55HOME12 HUD Grants $400,000.00

Section 2. That $400,000.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the HOME Investment Fund to the following account in the HOME Investment Fund:

14-2940-555311-B-G55HOME12 Neighborhood Revitalization $400,000.00

Section 3. That the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services is authorized to execute, on behalf of the City of Kansas City, Missouri, a contract for $400,000.00, from Account No. 14-2940-555311-G55HOME12, with Neighborhood Housing Services of Kansas City, Inc. A copy of the contract, in substantial form, is on file in the office of the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services.

Section 4. That the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services is designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 14-2940-555311.

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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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Nicole Rowlette

Assistant City Attorney