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[COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR]ORDINANCE NO. 240609, AS AMENDED
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Sponsor: Director of General Services Department
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
Authorizing the Manager of Procurement Services to execute a Design Professional Services contract with Dake Wells Architecture (No. 07P24026) in the amount of $948,000.00 for Fire Station Gender Neutral Upgrades at eight (8) fire stations; and directing the Chief Equity Officers to receive input from the fire department employees that are most impacted by the design of the upgrades to these fire stations.
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WHEREAS, the proposed contract includes the design of eight (8) Kansas City Missouri fire stations across the City to provide each station with secure individual and private bunk, restroom, and shower accommodations for each fire staff member and also include all electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and alerting system upgrades necessary to achieve their requirements in individual spaces; and
WHEREAS, the City Council passed Committee Substitute for Resolution No. 230220
which is Section 13 identifies the Capital Improvements Fund as the source of funding for fire station improvements related to safe and equitable shower and bathroom facilities; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the Manager of Procurement Services is authorized to execute a design professional contract in the amount of $948,000.00 (No. 07P24026) with Dake Wells Architecture for the purpose of Fire Station Gender Neutral Upgrades at eight (8) fire stations.
Section 2. Directing the Chief Equity Officer to work with the design professional in receiving input from a representation of the firefighters in the workforce that are most impacted by the design of these upgrades including female firefighters to ensure that their needs and suggestions are taken into account in the design of the upgrades to these fire stations.
Section 3. That the appropriation in the following account of the Fire Capital Sales Tax Fund is hereby reduced by the following amount:
25-2301-077700-E Gender Neutral Upgrades $948,000.00
Section 4. That the sum of $948,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund to the following account:
25-2320-077700-E Gender Neutral Upgrades $948,000.00
Section 5. That the Director of General Services is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 25-2320-077700-E.
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The City has no financial obligation under both this Ordinance and Contract until the Manager of Procurement Services issues a purchase order which shall be signed by the City’s Director of Finance certifying there is a balance, otherwise unencumbered, to the credit of the appropriation to which the expenditure is to be charged, and a cash balance, otherwise unencumbered, in the treasury, to the credit of the fund from which payment will be made, each sufficient to meet the obligated incurred in the purchase order.
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Tammy L. Queen
Director of Finance
Approved as to form:
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Dustin E. Johnson
Associate City Attorney