File #: 240610    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 7/9/2024 In control: Council
On agenda: 7/25/2024 Final action: 7/25/2024
Title: Sponsor: Director of Parks and Recreation Department Authorizing the Director of Parks and Recreation to enter into a supplemental cooperative grant funding agreement with the Missouri Department of Transportation for the Federal Highway Administration Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) for the Blue River Trail Martha Truman Connector Project for $342,200.00; estimating revenue and appropriating $342,200.00 to the Capital Improvements Grant Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsors: Director of Parks & Recreation
Attachments: 1. Docket Memo 0.1.5_Blue River Trail Martha Truman Conn Supplemental, 2. Approp--Admin---Blue River Trail Martha Truman Conn Supplemental - mj edits, 3. Authenticated Ordinance 240610

ORDINANCE NO 240610

 

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Sponsor:  Director of Parks and Recreation Department

 

Authorizing the Director of Parks and Recreation to enter into a supplemental cooperative grant funding agreement with the Missouri Department of Transportation for the Federal Highway Administration Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) for the Blue River Trail Martha Truman Connector Project for $342,200.00; estimating revenue and appropriating $342,200.00 to the Capital Improvements Grant Fund; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

 

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WHEREAS, the Transportation Alternatives Program has awarded supplemental funding for the Blue River Trail Martha Truman Connector Project in the amount of $342,200.00; and

 

                     WHEREAS, the supplemental funding for this project requires a local match of $85,550.00 that has been funded by Council District 6 PIAC, for a total amount of $427,750.00; and

 

WHEREAS, this project will consist of the design and construction of a segment of the Blue River Trail that will extend this regional trail shown in the MetroGreen and Trails KC Plans as a priority segment with the project limits being along the Blue River from E. 116th Street to Martha Truman Road;  and

 

WHEREAS, this funding is supplemental to $250,000.00 grant funding previously authorized in Ordinance No. 200010 on January 23, 2020, which required a local match of $62,500.00 that was funded by 6th Council District PIAC; and

 

WHEREAS, supplemental grant funds became available in the Missouri TAP balance and Parks and Recreation sought them to assist with funding this project; and

 

WHEREAS, on June 25, 2024, the Board of Parks and Recreation passed Resolution No. 32583 which approved for the Director or designee to execute the necessary documents from the Supplemental TAP Grant Award this project on behalf of the Board; and

 

WHEREAS, the TAP and the City wish to complete the project cooperatively and in partnership; NOW, THEREFORE,

 

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1. That the revenue in the amount of $342,200.00 is hereby estimated in the following amount of the Capital Improvements Grant Fund:

 

25-3091-700001-479095-70191308                                          Contribution from TAP                                          $342,200.00

 

Section 2. That the sum of $342,200.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Grant Fund to the following account in the Capital Improvements Grant Fund:

 

25-3091-705011-B-70191308                                                               BRT Martha Truman Conn.                                          $342,200.00

 

Section 3. That the Director of Parks and Recreation is hereby authorized to execute, on behalf of the City, a supplemental cooperative grant funding agreement in the amount of $427,750.00 with the Federal Highway Administration Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) for Project No. 70191308 BRT Martha Truman Conn. from funds hereby and previously appropriated to the follow accounts:

 

25-3091-705011-B-70191308                                                               BRT Martha Truman Conn.                                          $342,200.00

25-3090-708609-B-70191308                                                               BRT Martha Truman Conn.                                              85,550.00

                                                                                                                                                   TOTAL                                                               $427,750.00

 

Section 4. That the Director of Parks and Recreation is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 25-3091-705011-70191308.

 

Section 5. 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 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:

 

 

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Lana K. Torczon

Senior Associate City Attorney