ORDINANCE NO. 210765
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Authorizing the City Manager to execute an Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreement with the Land Bank of Kansas City, Missouri to support and undertake administrative and operational staffing and other services on behalf of the Land Bank.
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WHEREAS, Revised Missouri Statutes Section 141.980 permitted the City to establish by ordinance a land bank agency for the management, sale, transfer, and other disposition of interests in real estate owned by such land bank agency; and
WHEREAS, on September 20, 2012, the City passed Committee Substitute for Ordinance No. 120779 (“Authorizing Ordinance”) establishing the Land Bank of Kansas City, Missouri (“Land Bank”); and
WHEREAS, former members of the City Council authorized prior Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreements in the form of Ordinance No. 130195, passed on March 28, 2013, and Ordinance No. 160210, passed on April 7, 2016 and such prior Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreements were executed respectively on April 8, 2013 and April 25, 2016, between the Land Bank and the City, the terms of which have ended; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of City to continue to support the Land Bank in its operations and to enter into another Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreement to achieve that interest substantially in the form of earlier executed Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreements; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the City Manager is hereby authorized to execute an Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreement with the Land Bank outlining the terms and conditions by which the City will support and undertake administrative and operational staffing and other services for the benefit of the Land Bank. Such Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreement will be substantially in the form on file with this Ordinance. A copy of the Agreement, once signed by the Land Bank and the City Manager, will be on file with the Director of the Housing and Community Development Department.
Section 2. Upon the adoption of the City’s budget for the fiscal year starting May 1, 2022, the City Manager will advise the Land Bank of the funds allocated to it for use upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreement.
Section 3. The Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreement will be for an initial term not to exceed April 30, 2022, subject to termination with sixty (60) days’ notice, and further subject to the appropriations of funds by the City as more fully set forth in the Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreement.
Section 4. The Intergovernmental Agreement will automatically renew for five additional terms of one year each commencing on the first day of the fiscal year unless either party elects to not renew the Agreement at least sixty (60) days prior to the termination date.
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Approved as to form and legality:
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Amelia McIntyre
Associate City Attorney