ORDINANCE NO. 090480
Accepting and approving grants
from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Supportive
Housing Program Grant in the total amount $715,853.00 to provide homeless
services; estimating revenue by $5,417.00 and appropriating to the Supportive
Housing Program account in the General Fund; and authorizing the Director of
Neighborhood and Community Services to enter contracts with various non profit
organizations for the delivery of homeless services
WHEREAS, the
City of Kansas City, Missouris Neighborhood and Community Services Department submitted
its 13th request to renew grants through the U. S. Department of Housing of
Urban Development for homeless services; and
WHEREAS, the
City of Kansas City, Missouri was approved for funding that will provide for
rental assistance for scattered site transitional housing, employment
assistance, services at a downtown homeless services drop-in center,
transitional housing, services for victims of domestic violence, and housing
counseling; and
WHEREAS, in
order to receive this funding, the City must accept the funding and enter into contracts
with designated non-profit organizations represented in the Citys renewal
application; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED
BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That
grant agreements between the City of Kansas City Missouri and the U. S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development for the Supportive Housing Program Grant in
the total amount of $715,853.00 are hereby accepted and approved which will provide
funding to non-profit organizations approved in the Citys renewal application.
Section 2. That
the revenue in the following account of the Governmental Grant Fund is hereby
increased in the following amount:
10-1000-570001-477600 Supportive
Housing Program $5,417.00
Section 3. That
the sum of $5,417.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund
Balance of the following account in the General Fund:
10-1000-575203-B Supportive
Housing Program $5,417.00
Section 4. That
the Director of Neighborhood and Community Services is authorized to enter into
contracts with the following organizations with funds previously appropriated
to the following in Account No. 10-1000-575203-B:
Community LINC $122,894.00
Greater Kansas City Housing Information Center 24,268.00
Helping Hand of
Goodwill 35,271.00
Newhouse
32,151.00
ReStart, Inc.- Homeless
Services Center 194,690.00
ReStart, Inc. - Transitional
Housing 47,150.00
Swope Health
Services 111,725.00
United Services
Community Action Agency 130,795.00
TOTAL $698,944.00
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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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Jeffrey
A. Yates
Director
of Finance
Approved
as to form and legality:
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Nicole
Rowlette
Assistant City Attorney