ORDINANCE NO. 100341
Accepting and approving a
$195,318.00 contract amendment with Healthcare Strategies Initiative (H.S.I.)
to provide insurance continuation services for eligible Ryan White clients who
are in case management and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ORDAINED
BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That a contract amendment between the City of Kansas
City, Missouri, acting through its Director of Health, and Healthcare
Strategies Initiative (H.S.I.) dba Lackland Acquisitions, LLC, acting through
its Executive Administrator, whereby Healthcare Strategies Initiative will
provide insurance continuation services for eligible Ryan White clients who are
in case management for a period beginning January 1, 2009 through February 28,
2011, for a total contract amount not to exceed $896,789.00 to be paid from
funds previously appropriated in Account No. 10-2730-505003-B, is hereby
accepted and approved. A copy of the contract amendment, in substantial form,
is attached hereto and made a part hereof by reference.
Section 2. That the Director is hereby
authorized to extend the term of this contract without further Council approval;
that the Director is also hereby authorized to amend this contract to increase
or decrease the total contract dollar amount contingent upon the need and
availability of appropriated funds.
Section 3. That this ordinance is declared as an emergency
measure within the provisions of Section 503(a)(2) of the City Charter 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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Randall
J. Landes
Director
of Finance
Approved
as to form and legality:
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Joseph
Guarino
Assistant City Attorney