ORDINANCE NO. 240325
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Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Authorizing and directing the City Manager to solicit the procurement of contractors necessary for the construction of a holding cell facility located at the headquarters of the Kansas City Police Department; reducing transfers between the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund and the General Debt and Interest Fund; estimating additional revenue in the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund; appropriating the amount of $12,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax fund for the purpose of constructing a holding cell facility; designating requisitioning authority; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, the City has outstanding detention and rehabilitation needs; and
WHEREAS, the City uses a portion of the Public Safety Sales Tax to make debt service payments on General Obligation bonds issued pursuant to 2010 voted authorization through a budgeted transfer to the General Debt and Interest Fund; and
WHEREAS, due to recent increases in assessed valuation of taxable tangible property within the City, the General Debt and Interest Fund has an expected FY2023-24 ending fund balance in excess of $19 million making the FY2023-24 budgeted transfer from the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund unnecessary to meet the current and future obligations of the General Debt and Interest Fund; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the reduced transfer results in available funds in the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund and that the capital improvements contemplated herein are an acceptable use of this source of revenue; NOW THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. Authorizing and directing the City Manager to solicit the procurement of contractor(s) necessary for the construction of a holding cell facility located at the headquarters of the Kansas City Police Department.
Section 2. That revenue in the following account of the General Debt and Interest Fund is hereby reduced in the following amount:
24-5010-120000-502320 Tfr From Public Safety Sales Tax $9,776,750.00
Section 3. That the appropriations in the following account of the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund are hereby reduced in the following amount:
24-2320-129998-905010 Tfr to General Debt and Interest $9,776,750.00
Section 4. That the revenue estimate in the following account of the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund is hereby increased by the following amount:
24-2320-120000-451100 Sales Tax $1,999,209.00
Section 5. That $12,000,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund to the following account:
24-2320-077700-E-07P24071 KCPD Holding Facility $12,000,000.00
Section 6. That the Director of General Services is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 2320-077700-07P24071.
Section 7. That this ordinance is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Section 503(a)(3)(C) of the City Charter in that it appropriates money, 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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Tammy L. Queen
Director of Finance
Approved as to form:
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Samuel Miller
Assistant City Attorney