ORDINANCE NO. 230965
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Sponsor: Director of Water Services Department
Estimating revenue in the amount of $300,000.00 in the Capital Improvements Fund; appropriating this amount to the Milrey Stoddard Flood Control account; authorizing a Cooperative Agreement with Platte County, Missouri for the Design and Development, and Management of the Milrey-Stoddard Storm Water Improvements; and authorizing a $487,373.00 contract with Wilson and Company, Inc., for the design of the Milrey Stoddard Flood Control project.
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WHEREAS, Walnut Creek, a tributary of Rush Creek which generally parallels Stoddard Avenue between N.W. 73rd Street and N.W. 83rd Street, has been impacted by increased runoff and surrounding development patterns; and
WHEREAS, the City completed an initial phase of the project in the mid-2000’s but did not complete the entire flood control mitigation due to a lack of funding; and
WHEREAS, neighbors along this section of creek complain of stream bank erosion, property flooding, roadway flooding, and damage to utilities; and
WHEREAS, Walnut Creek flows into unincorporated Platte County and the City and County seek to address watershed issues via an agreed upon project that provides flood relief in the upper reaches of Walnut Creek; and
WHEREAS, with the approval for Committee Substitute for Resolution No. 220937, the 2024-2028 Citywide Business Plan was approved which included the Submitted FY 2024-2025 GOKC Bond Five Year Plan which included funding in FY 2025-2026 to complete the remaining flood control mitigation for the Milrey-Stoddard area of Walnut Creek; and
WHEREAS, multiple studies have been completed to look at possible solutions to the problems along this section of creek with the most recent being the N.W. Stoddard Detention Preliminary Engineering Study completed by Wilson and Company, Inc. for the City dated June 13, 2019, and the County wishes to help accelerate the design of the project to allow for construction in 2025; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the revenue in the following account of the Capital Improvements Fund is estimated in the following amount:
24-3090-800001-479983-82000365 Platte County Storm Water Grant $300,000.00
Section 2. That the sum of $300,000.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Fund to the following account in the Capital Improvements Fund:
24-3090-808052-B-82000365 Milrey Stoddard Flood Control $300,000.00
Section 3. That the Director of Water Services is hereby authorized to enter into and execute a Cooperative Agreement with Platte County for the Design and Development, and Management of the Milrey-Stoddard Storm Water Improvements project. The agreement is approved in substantial form as that on file in the office of the Director of Water Services, subject to the receipt of all required approvals.
Section 4. That the Director of Water Services is hereby authorized to execute, on behalf of the City, a $487,373.00 contract with Wilson and Company, Inc. for Contract No. 473, Milrey Stoddard Flood Control Project, Project No. 82000365, from funds hereby appropriated to the follow accounts:
AL-3624-808052-611060-82000365 Milrey Stoddard Flood Control $243,686.50
24-3090-808052-611060-82000365 Milrey Stoddard Flood Control 243,686.50
TOTAL $487,373.00
A copy of the contract is on file in the office of the Director of Water Services.
Section 5. That the Director of Water Services is hereby designated as requisitioning authority on Account Nos. 3090-808052-611060-82000365 and 3624-808052-611060-82000365.
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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:
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Mark P. Jones
Senior Associate City Attorney