ORDINANCE NO. 970212

Authorizing two eleven month $38,500.00 and $40,000.00 agreements with the Good Samaritan Project, Inc., to provide emergency assistance and transportation services to persons living with HIV/AIDS and authorizing the Director of Health to amend each agreement by up to $35,000.00 without Council approval.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That agreements between Kansas City, Missouri Health Department, acting through its Director of Health, and the Good Samaritan Project, Inc., acting through its executory authority, to provide emergency assistance and transportation services for persons living with HIV/AIDS for the period of April 4, 1997 to February 28, 1998, for amounts not to exceed $38,500.00 and $40,000.00, respectively, are hereby authorized. The agreements will be funded from appropriations previously approved in Ordinance No. 961494 in Account No. 97-273-050-2443-B. A copy of the agreements, in substantial form, are attached hereto and made a part hereof by reference.

Section 2. That the Director of Health is authorized to amend the agreements without Council approval. Contract amendments cannot exceed $35,000.00.

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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.

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Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Assistant City Attorney