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[COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR]ORDINANCE NO. 250462
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Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
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; designating requisitioning authority; and requiring certain terms for contracts distributing funds appropriated by this ordinance.
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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.
Section 5. That any contracts distributing funds provided by the EPA grant accepted by this ordinance shall contain language that provides that, notwithstanding any other provisions of the contract, the City shall have the power to stop work and terminate the contract immediately and at any time the federal government permanently or temporarily freezes, terminates, or otherwise makes such grant funds unavailable to the City. Such contracts shall further provide that invoices for work properly performed pursuant to the contract shall be paid in accordance with the terms of the contract prior to termination.
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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