ORDINANCE NO. 210868
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Authorizing the Director of Public Works to execute a $160,000.00 Cost Apportionment Agreement with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for a Planning and Environmental Linkages Study along I-29, I-35, and US 169.
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WHEREAS, the City of Kansas City, Missouri applied for and secured a $640,000.00 BUILD grant from the Federal Highway Administration to undertake a planning effort to evaluate portions of I-29, I-35, and US 169; and
WHEREAS, portions of these highways were originally built in the late 1950’s as part of Kansas City’s Paseo Bridge project and are reaching the end of their useful life; and
WHEREAS, these highways and associated interchanges have created barriers for pedestrians and transit users at Parvin Road, Antioch Road, North Oak Trafficway, Vivion Road, N.W. 56th Street; and
WHEREAS, the study will complete planning and community outreach and develop a list of recommended improvements to be used to guide the rehabilitation and reconstruction along these corridors;
WHEREAS, the BUILD grant requires local matching funds and the City and MoDOT are splitting the cost of the matching funds; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the Director of the Public Works Department is hereby authorized to enter into a Cost Apportionment Agreement in the amount of $160,000.00 with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for a Planning and Environmental Linkages Study along I-29, I-35, and US 169 from funds previously appropriated to account numbers 3090-898104-B-89008871 and 3090-898204-B-89008871. A copy of the agreement is on file in the Public Works Director’s Office.
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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 and legality:
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Nelson V. Munoz
Assistant City Attorney