ORDINANCE NO. 250890, AS AMENDED
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Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Reducing appropriations in the amount of $15,028,929.97 in the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund; appropriating $22,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund for the purpose of building a Temporary Modular Jail Facility; designating requisitioning authority; authorizing the Director of General Services to execute contract EV-4177 in an amount up to $15,975,000 with Brown & Root Industrial Services, Inc for construction of a Temporary Modular Jail; authorizing the Director of General Services to execute amendment no. 2 in the amount of $1,513,837.00 for contract EV3851 with Treanor, Inc. for design professional services related to the temporary modular jail; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, the City has contracts with Johnson County, Missouri and Vernon County, Missouri to provide detention services; and
WHEREAS, the City has outstanding detention and rehabilitation needs; and
WHEREAS, the expected surge of visitors to the City for the upcoming 2026 World Cup may further strain the City’s limited rehabilitation and detention resources; and
WHEREAS, Committee Substitute for Resolution No. 250393 directed the City Manager to research and evaluate the feasibility of establishing a temporary modular jail facility, including central booking capabilities, to meet the City’s current rehabilitation and detention needs; and
WHEREAS, Council desires to provide additional rehabilitation and detention facilities in the form of a modular jail facility; and
WHEREAS, cost estimates for a Modular Jail Facility have come back and the cost for 100 beds is approximately $21.4 million dollars at a cost of $214,000.00 per bed; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 240807, As Amended, appropriated the amount of $16,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax fund for the purpose of constructing a Kansas City Police Department Downtown Booking facility; and
WHEREAS, the Public Safety Sales Tax fund is forecast to have an estimated ending balance of more than $9 million at the end of Fiscal Year 2026 and it is the intent of City Council to utilize up to $7 million of fund balance to support the construction of a modular jail facility; and
WHEREAS, Council desires to utilize up to $15,028,929.97 of funds previously appropriated in Ordinance No. 240807, As Amended, for the construction of a temporary modular jail facility; and
WHEREAS, Treanor was selected as the design professional for the Kansas City Detention and Rehabilitation Center which includes scope in support of the temporary detention facility; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. Reducing an appropriation in the amount of $15,028,929.97 in the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund in the following account:
26-2320-077700-E-07P24071 KCPD Downtown Booking Facility $15,028,929.97
Section 2. That the sum of $22,000,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund in the following amount:
26-2320-077700-E-07P26022 Modular Jail Facility $22,000,000.00
Section 3. That the Director of General Services is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 2320-077700-E-07P26022.
Section 4. That the Director of General Services is hereby authorized to execute contract EV-4177 an amount up to $15,975,000 with Brown & Root Industrial Services, Inc for construction of a Temporary Modular Jail and enter into such other agreements as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this ordinance.
Section 5. That the Director of General Services is hereby authorized to execute amendment no. 2 in the amount of $1,513,837.00 for contract EV3851 with Treanor, Inc. for design professional services related to the temporary modular jail from funds appropriated herein.
Section 6. That this ordinance, relating to the design, repair, maintenance, or construction of a public improvement and appropriating money, is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Section 503(a)(3) of the City Charter and shall take effect in accordance with the same.
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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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William Choi
Interim Director of Finance
Approved as to form:
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Samuel Miller
Assistant City Attorney