ORDINANCE NO. 090453

Accepting and approving a one-year $2,845,364.00 contract amendment from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that provides additional funding for Ryan White Title I Services.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That a $2,845,364.00 one-year grant award contract amendment between the City of Kansas City, Missouri, acting through its Director of Health, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Division of the Health Resources Administration (HRSA), acting through its Director of Administration, whereby the Department of Health and Human Services will provide funding for persons living with HIV/AIDS in the eleven county Kansas City TGA (transitional grant area) for a period beginning March 1, 2009, through February 28, 2010, for a total contract amount not to exceed $4,369,143.00, is hereby accepted and approved. A copy of the amendment, in substantial form, is attached hereto and made a part hereof by reference.

Section 2. That the Director of Health is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $3,005,729.00 from funds previously appropriated to Account No. 10-2730-505003-B for the aforesaid account.

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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