ORDINANCE NO. 260325
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Sponsor: Director of Neighborhood Services Department
Accepting a $150,000.00 grant award from the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission, as part of its Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program, to fund the purchase of electric vehicle charging infrastructure and hybrid or electric vehicles; estimating and appropriating revenue in the amount of $150,000.00; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Title 23 United States Code (USC) §149 authorizes the funding of projects providing for congestion mitigation and air quality (CMAQ); and
WHEREAS, from funds it received from the Federal Highway Administration, the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission has awarded the City a $150,000.00 grant to support the City’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure, which the City will additionally support through its required local grant matching contribution of $37,500.00; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the Director of the Neighborhood Services Department is authorized to accept a $150,000.00 grant from the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission, as part of its Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program, for the purpose of purchasing electric vehicle charging infrastructure and hybrid vehicles to expand the current fleet and network of the region. The Director of the Neighborhood Services Department is also authorized to execute a grant agreement with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission to govern the administration of the grant funds and City’s required matching contribution of $37,500.00 described in Section 5, below. A copy of the grant agreement is on file with the Director of the Neighborhood Services Department and is approved in substantial form.
Section 2.That revenue in the amount of $150,000.00 is hereby estimated in the following account of the General Grants Fund:
26-2580-570001-476475-G57DOTHPC26 2026 MO DOT Highway
Planning $150,000.00
Section 3. That the sum of $150,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the General Grants Fund to the following account:
26-2580-575808-619080-G57DOTHPC26 2026 MO DOT Highway
Planning $150,000.00
Section 4. That the Director of the Neighborhood Services Department is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 26-2580-575808-619080-G57DOTHPC26.
Section 5. That the City’s required local grant matching contribution of $37,500.00, to be expended for the same purposes as the above grant and pursuant to the above agreement, has been previously appropriated from the General Fund in the following account:
26-1000-571436-619080 Environmental Education $ 37,500.00
Section 6. 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 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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William Choi
Interim Director of Finance
Approved as to form:
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Bret Kassen
Associate City Attorney