ORDINANCE NO. 260278
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Sponsor: Director of General Services Department
Authorizing the Manager of Procurement Services to execute a contract amendment to EV3851 with Treanor, Inc. for design professional services related to the permanent detention facility in an amount not to exceed $1,252,000.00 from previously appropriated funds; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, Kansas City operated the Municipal Farm correctional facility until its closure until 2009 based upon an agreement for incarceration between Jackson County, Missouri and the City of Kansas City; and
WHEREAS, Kansas City had a detention facility on the top floor of Kansas City, Missouri Police Department (“KCPD”) headquarters for 77 years, which closed in 2015; and
WHEREAS, upon the closure of the eighth-floor detention facility, all Kansas City inmates charged with ordinance violations were housed in the Jackson County Detention Center, Clay County Detention Center, or Platte County Detention Center; and
WHEREAS, in 2018, Jackson County informed Kansas City, it would cancel the contract housing Kansas City inmates in their facility; and
WHEREAS, Kansas City since 2019 has contracted with third parties, including other counties to house inmates; and
WHEREAS, Kansas City Council in Resolutions 250393, 250839, and 250890 reaffirmed its support for staff and consultant focus on the urgent construction and delivery of a modular facility by June 1, 2026; and
WHEREAS, City staff has briefed City Council on options for a facility, which include construction of a detention facility upon land for which the City held an option adjacent to the new Jackson County Detention Center (“40 Highway site”) or an expanded permanent modular detention facility on the tow lot site; and
WHEREAS, City staff has advised City Council of additional site preparation costs on the 40 Highway site, which sits in a flood plain; and
WHEREAS, City Council has been briefed on potential cost savings on Public Safety Sales Tax funds through construction of a permanent modular detention facility on the City tow lot site; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 250992 authorized Treanor to review a potential detention facility site at the Kansas City tow lot that maintains efficient delivery of a permanent detention facility for Kansas City and City Council has been briefed on that feasibility; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 260061 directed the City Manager to enter into agreements necessary to expand the Front Street Detention Facility into a permanent detention facility at the Front Street site and permit the lapsing of the land purchase option on highway 40 and reallocate associated funding to the detention facility expansion project; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 260238 appropriated $5,000,000.00 to the Detention Center Design via the Special Obligation Series 2026B Bond Fund; and
WHEREAS, Treanor was selected as the design professional for the Kansas City Detention and Rehabilitation Center which includes scope in support of the detention facility; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the Manager of Procurement Services is hereby authorized to execute a contract amendment to EV3851 in the amount not to exceed $1,252,200.00 with Treanor, Inc. for design professional services related to the permanent detention facility at the same location as the modular detention facility from previously appropriated funds in Account No. AL-3457-077210-B-07P26027.
Section 2. 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)(C) and Section 503(a)(3)(D) of the City Charter and shall take effect in accordance with 503, City Charter.
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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 obligation incurred in the Purchase Order.
______________________________ William Choi
Interim Director of Finance
Approved as to form:
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Andrew Bonkowski
Assistant City Attorney