COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR ORDINANCE NO. 090657

 

Transferring $439,850.51 in completed grant funds to the General Fund; appropriating $300,000.00 to fulfill the City’s financial commitment to Operation Breakthrough; authorizing a $300,000.00 contract with Operation Breakthrough; and authorizing the Director of Finance to close the Federal Urban Development Grant Fund (No. 2520).

WHEREAS, Resolution No. 070359, as approved on April 5, 2007, committed the City of Kansas City to provide $600,000.00 over three years for the expansion of the Operation Breakthrough/St. Vincent’s Child Care Center; and

 

WHEREAS, a total of $200,000.00 was provided in FY 2007-08 from the General Fund and additional child care funding to honor the City's commitment in Resolution No. 070359; and

 

WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 090380, approved on May 25, 2009, provided Operation Breakthrough/St. Vincent's Child Care Center with funding in the amount of $100,000.00 subject to repayment if the agency received non-City Stimulus Plan funding provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and Operation Breakthrough/St. Vincent's Child Care Center received non-City Stimulus Plan funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 requiring repayment of the 100,000.00 that will be used as a credit towards the City's commitment in Resolution No. 070359 resulting in a total of $300,000.00 to be funded to Operation Breakthrough to fully honor the City's financial commitment; and

 

WHEREAS, a total of $439,850.51 in remaining prior-year grant funds have been identified as part of a FY 2008-09 review of cash balances in the City’s financial system; and

 

WHEREAS, these one-time resources could be used to fully pay the City’s remaining financial commitment to Operation Breakthrough; NOW, THEREFORE,

 

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1. That $121,090.51 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Neighborhood Stabilization Grant Fund (No. 2510) to the following account in the Neighborhood Stabilization Grant Fund (No. 2510):

 

10-2510-129998-X Transfer to General Fund $121,090.51

 

Section 2. That $318,760.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Federal Urban Development Grant Fund (No. 2520) to the following account of the Federal Urban Development Grant Fund (No. 2520):

 

10-2520-129998-X Transfer to General Fund $318,760.00

 

Section 3. That revenue is estimated in the following accounts of the General Fund:

 

10-1000-120000-502510 Transfer from NSG Fund $121,090.51

10-1000-120000-502520 Transfer from UDAG Fund 18,760.00

TOTAL $439,850.51

 

Section 4. That $300,000.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the General Fund to the following account in the General Fund:

 

10-1000-572000-B Social Services $300,000.00

 

Section 5. That the Acting Director of Neighborhood and Community Services is authorized to enter into a contract with Operation Breakthrough in an amount not to exceed $300,000.00 as a contribution towards acquisition and demolition costs associated with the construction of the new Operation Breakthrough day-care facility from funds previously appropriated to Account No. 10-1000-572000-B.

 

Section 6. That the Director of Finance is authorized to close the Federal Urban Development Grant Fund (No. 2520), and transfer any remaining cash balances to the General Fund (No. 1000).

 

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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