ORDINANCE NO. 090703
Authorizing a one-year $719,500.00
contract with SAVE, Inc., to provide additional housing assistance for
low-income persons living with HIV/AIDS and declaring an emergency.
WHEREAS,
SAVE, Inc. provides housing assistance for persons infected with HIV and their
families; and
WHEREAS, the Health Department is committed to
providing continued support for persons with HIV; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance will allow the funding
needed to continue this service, uninterrupted, and is necessary to prevent a
possible gap in services and care; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED
BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That
a contract between the City of Kansas City, Missouri, acting through its
Director of Health, and SAVE, Inc., acting through its Executive Director,
whereby SAVE will provide housing assistance for low-income residents living
with HIV/AIDS in Kansas Citys Eligible Metropolitan Area (EMA) for the period
of September 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010, for a total contract amount of $719,500.00
to be paid from funds previously appropriated to Account No. 10-2740-505004-B
is hereby authorized. A copy of the contract, in substantial form, is attached
hereto and made a part hereof by reference.
Section 2.
That this ordinance is declared an emergency measure within the provisions of
Section 503 of the Charter of Kansas City in that it relates to the immediate
preservation of the public health, and shall take effect in accordance with
that section.
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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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Jeffrey
A. Yates
Director
of Finance
Approved
as to form and legality:
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Joseph
Guarino
Assistant City Attorney