ORDINANCE NO. 120434
Authorizing acceptance of a 2011
Emergency Solutions Program Grant in the amount of $208,625.00 for the
provision of homeless services, pending the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development’s approval of the City’s substantial amendment of the 2011
One Year Action Plan; and increasing revenues and expenditures.
WHEREAS, the Homeless Emergency Assistance and
Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 (HEARTH Act), enacted into law on May
20, 2009, consolidates three of the separate homeless assistance programs
administered by HUD under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act into a
single grant program, revises the Emergency Shelter Grant program and renames
the program the Emergency Solutions Grant Program (ESGP); and
WHEREAS, the
HEARTH Act established four categories of homelessness which will be
integrated into the City’s One Year Action Plan under Title 24 CFR Part 91,
Definition of Homelessness; and
WHEREAS, the
City will accept the stage two Emergency Solutions Program Grant allocation in
the amount $208,625.00; and
WHEREAS, the
City will retain $24,919.00 of the stage two allocation funding for management,
oversight, coordination, monitoring, performance evaluation, ESGP training,
Consolidated Plan coordination, and environmental reviews as needed; and
WHEREAS, the City
will solicit requests for proposals for $183,706.00 for Rapid Re-housing
Services targeted to three (3) priority populations of homeless persons,
homeless families with children, and unaccompanied youth; and
WHEREAS,
Resolution No. 120373, adopted on April 26, 2012, authorized
the amendment of the 2011 One Year Action Plan in order to integrate the
new definition of homelessness, accept the additional stage two funding and
allocate the funding;and
WHEREAS, the
City conducted a request for proposal process for the additional 2011 Emergency
Solution Grant Program and is seeking approval of the recommended funding
allocations; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE
IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That
the Director of Neighborhood and Housing Services is authorized to accept a
2011 Emergency Solutions Program Grant in the amount of $208,625.00 for the
provision of homeless services, pending the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development’s approval of the City’s substantial amendment of the 2011
One Year Action Plan.
Section 2. That
revenue in the following account is increased by the following amount:
13-1000-570001-477570 Emergency
Solutions Grant Program $208,625.00
Section 3. That
$208,625.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the General
Fund to the following accounts:
13-1000-575201-A- G57ESG11 Emergency
Solutions Grant $ 24,919.00
13-1000-575201-B- G57ESG11 Emergency
Solutions Grant 183,706.00
TOTAL
$208,625.00
Section 4. That
Director of the Neighborhood and Housing Services Department is hereby
authorized to enter into contracts with nonprofit agencies in the following
amounts:
Community LINC $51,200.00
reStart $50,005.00
United Services Community Action $90,858.00
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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.
___________________________________
Randall
J. Landes
Director
of Finance
Approved
as to form and legality:
___________________________________
Nicole
Rowlette
Assistant City Attorney