ORDINANCE NO. 210066

Authorizing acceptance of a grant renewal from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women, in the amount of $749,828.00; estimating revenues and appropriations in the amount of $749,828.00 to the Domestic Violence Grant Fund; authorizing the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services to enter into a contract with Rose Brooks Center in the amount of $749,828.00; and designating requisitioning authority.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That a grant renewal award to the City of Kansas City, Missouri from the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (VAW), Improving Criminal Justice Responses Program, whereby VAW will provide funding to encourage partnerships between state, local and tribal governments, courts, victim service providers, coalitions and rape crises centers, to ensure that sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking are treated as serious violations of criminal law for an amount not to exceed $749,828.00, is hereby accepted and approved. A copy of Grant Award No. 2017-WE-AX-0024 is on file in the Office of the Neighborhoods and Housing Services Department and is incorporated by reference.

Section 2. That the revenue in the following account of the Domestic Violence Grant Fund is estimated in the following amount:

21-2470-570001-479415-G57CAP17 Community Arrest Program $749,828.00

Section 3. That the sum of $749,828.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance to the following account in the Domestic Violence Grant Fund:

21-2470-575100-B-G57CAP17 Community Arrest Program $749,828.0

Section 4. That the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services is authorized to enter into a contract with Rose Brooks Center in the amount of $749,828.00 from funds appropriated to Account No. 21-2470-575100-B-G57CAP17.

Section 5. That the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services is designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 21-2470-575100.

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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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Tammy L. Queen

Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Erik Zercher

Assistant City Attorney