ORDINANCE NO. 250964
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Sponsor: City Manager’s Office
Estimating revenue in the amount of $31,569,602.00 in the Capital Improvements Grant Fund, Fund No. 3091 and appropriating the same to the Roy Blunt Luminary Park Project; authorizing the Director of Finance to close accounts upon project completion; authorizing the City Manager to act as the City’s representative to accept cost share dollars and execute a cost share agreement with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission (MHTC) related to the Roy Blunt Luminary Park/South Loop Link; authorizing the City Manager to execute an airspace agreement on behalf of the City of Kansas City, Missouri, with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission (MHTC) for the Roy Blunt Luminary Park/South Loop Link Project and Bartle Hall; designating requisitioning authority and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, on August 1, 2024, the City Council approved Committee Substitute for Ordinance No. 240602 authorizing the City Manager to submit an application for the MoDOT Partnership Development Cost Share Program for which the City was successful in obtaining funds not to exceed $31,569,602.00 for the Roy Blunt Luminary Park/South Loop Link Project; and
WHEREAS, on December 9, 1990, City Council approved Ordinance No. 900660 and on March 27, 2005, City Council approved Ordinance No. 050300, authorizing the execution of agreements with the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission authorizing the use of the air space over highway right of way for the Bartle Hall expansions; and
WHEREAS, the Roy Blunt Luminary Park will require authorization of the use of additional air space over highway right of way immediately adjacent to Bartle Hall so it is proposed to enter into a single air space agreement with the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department that will supersede the 1990 and 2005 agreements and apply to the area covered by the entire project NOW, THEREFORE;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. Estimating revenue in the amount of $31,569,602.00 in Fund No. 3091 in the following account:
26-3091-107040-476479-10LUMINARYPK Luminary Park $31,569,602.00
Section 2. That the sum of $31,569,602.00 is hereby appropriated in Fund No. 3091, to the following account:
26-3091-107040-B-10LUMINARYPK Luminary Park $31,569,602.00
Section 3. That the Director of Finance is hereby authorized to close accounts upon project completion
Section 4. That the City Manager is hereby authorized to execute a cost share agreement on behalf of the City of Kansas City, Missouri, with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission (MHTC) for the Roy Blunt Luminary Park/South Loop Link Project.
Section 5. That the City Manager is hereby authorized to execute an airspace agreement on behalf of the City of Kansas City, Missouri, with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission (MHTC) for the Roy Blunt Luminary Park/South Loop Link Project and Bartle Hall.
Section 6. That the City Manager is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 26-3091-107040-B-10LUMINARYPK.
Section 7. That this ordinance, relating to the design, repair, maintenance or construction of a public improvement, is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Section 503(a)(3)(D) of the City Charter and shall take effect in accordance with Section 503, City Charter.
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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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William Choi
Interim Director of Finance
Approved as to form:
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Dusin E. Johnson
Assistant City Attorney