ORDINANCE NO. 250462
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Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Accepting a Brownfields Cleanup Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the amount of $4,000,000.00; estimating revenue in the amount of $4,000,000.00 in the Brownfields Fund; appropriating funds to certain accounts within the Brownfields Fund; and designating requisitioning authority.
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WHEREAS, on October 31, 2024, as authorized by Resolution No. 240933, an application for a Brownfields Cleanup Grant (“Grant”) for the remediation of forty-seven vacant Land Bank properties and the former Benson Manufacturing site in the Washington Wheatley neighborhood was submitted to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”); and
WHEREAS, on May 16, 2025, EPA announced the award of a Brownfields Cleanup Grant to the City of Kansas City, Missouri in the amount of $4,000,000.00; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the Director of the Department of City Planning and Development is authorized to accept from the EPA a Brownfields Cleanup Grant for the remediation of the 47 Land Bank properties and former Benson Manufacturing site in the Washington Wheatley neighborhood in the total amount of $4,000,000.00.
Section 2. That revenue in the following account of the Brownfields Fund is estimated in the following amount:
26-2550-640001-476722-G64WWCG Washington Wheatley Multiple $4,0000,000.00
Section 3. That $4,000,000.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Brownfields Fund to the following accounts:
26-2550-645020-A-G64WWCG Washington Wheatley Multiple $ 336,851.00
26-2550-645020-B- G64WWCG Washington Wheatley Multiple 3,663,149.00 TOTAL: $4,000,000.00
Section 4. That the Director of the Department of City Planning and Development is designated requisitioning authority for Account No. 26-2550-645020.
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I hereby certify that there is a balance, otherwise unencumbered, to the credit of the appropriation to which the forgoing 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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Abigail Judah
Assistant City Attorney