ORDINANCE NO. 030517

Estimating and appropriating the sum of $4,000.00 and authorizing contracts in the total amount of $387,600.00 with various agencies for the 2003 HUD Emergency Shelter Grant to provide services to homeless persons and families.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the revenue in the following account of the General Fund is hereby increased by the following amount:

04-100-057-7755 Emergency Shelter Grant Program-HUD03 $4,000.00

Section 2. That the appropriation in the following accounts of the General Fund are hereby increased by the following amounts:

04-100-057-2020-A Emergency Shelter Grant Program-HUD03 $ 200.00

04-100-057-2020-B Emergency Shelter Grant Program-HUD03 3,800.00

TOTAL $4,000.00

Section 3. That the Director of Neighborhood and Community Services Department is hereby authorized to execute contracts with the following agencies in their respective amounts not to exceed those listed below funds herein and previously appropriated in Account No. 04-100-057-2020-B for the period of April 1, 2003 through March 31, 2004. The contracts are approved, in substantial form, and are on file with the Director of Neighborhood and Community Services:

Benilde Hall $ 30,000.00

Community Assistance Council 15,000.00

Community LINC 15,000.00

Guadalupe Center, Inc. 37,200.00

GKC Housing Information Center 64,965.00

Metropolitan Lutheran Ministry 32,850.00

Newhouse, Inc. 38,935.00

Sheffield Place 30,000.00

The Salvation Army 31,000.00

Rose Brooks Center, Inc. 48,800.00

Synergy Services, Inc. 28,850.00

ReStart 15,000.00

SUB-TOTAL $387,600.00

NCSD Administrative Costs 20,400.00

TOTAL $408,000.00

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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