ORDINANCE NO. 250324
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Sponsor: Director of Water Services Department
Authorizing a $1,650,000.00 construction contract with Leath & Sons, Inc., for the Water Department Emergency Transmission Water Main Repair Renewal No. 1 project; authorizing three successive renewal options for a maximum expenditure of $6,765,000.00 with further City Council approval; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, City Council passed Ordinance No. 240485 on June 13, 2024, authorizing a $1,650,000.00 construction contract with Leath & Sons, Inc., for the Water Department Emergency Transmission Water Main Repair project and authorizing four successive renewal options with further City Council approval; and
WHEREAS, the City executed three change orders on this contract totaling $165,000.00; and
WHEREAS, this proposed ordinance is for the first of four renewal options for this contract; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the Director of the Water Services Department is authorized to execute Contract No. 9848-1 in the amount of $1,650,000.00 with Leath & Sons, Inc., for the Water Department Emergency Transmission Water Main Repair, Renewal No. 1 project, Project No. 60800073. A copy of the contract is on file in the office of Water Services.
Section 2. That the Director of Water Services is authorized to expend up to the sum of $1,650,000.00 from Account No. 26-8010-802010-619060, Division of Distribution - Pipeline, to satisfy the cost of this contract.
Section 3. That the Director of Water Services is hereby authorized to execute three successive one-year renewal options for this contract with additional Council approval with such funds as appropriated by the Council in future annual budgets.
Section 4. That this ordinance, relating to the design, repair, maintenance or construction of a public improvement, is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Section 503(a)(3)(D) of the City Charter and shall take effect in accordance with Section 503, City Charter.
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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