ORDINANCE NO. 240546
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Sponsor: Director of City Planning and Development Department
Authorizing the Director of City Planning and Development to apply for and accept supplemental funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to increase capitalization of the Kansas City Regional Brownfield Coalition Revolving Loan Fund; estimating and appropriating revenue in the amount of $3,500,000.00 in certain Brownfield Revolving Loan Funds; and authorizing the execution of an amended cooperative agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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WHEREAS, the City accepted a Brownfield Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund (“Brownfield RLF”) grant in 2000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in the amount of $500,000.00 as authorized by Ordinance No. 001210; and
WHEREAS, the City created the Kansas City Brownfield RLF Program to make loans and subgrants of RLF grant funds for the cleanup of Brownfield sites in Kansas City, Missouri; and
WHEREAS, the City in the years 2007, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2022 accepted additional funding from the EPA in a total amount of $8,483,840.00 to increase capitalization of the Kansas City Brownfield RLF, as authorized by Ordinance Nos. 070894, 100138, 120849 and 140732, Resolution No. 150693, and Ordinance Nos. 160539, 180581, 190633, 190773, 220630 and 230488, respectively; and
WHEREAS, the Brownfield RLF program is an important source of capital that can be used to provide low-interest, partially-forgivable loans and subgrants to finance the cleanup of abandoned and underutilized properties, and help create jobs and new economic opportunities, especially for economically distressed, historically underserved and disproportionately burdened communities in Kansas City; and
WHEREAS, the EPA has selected the City to be awarded an additional Supplemental RLF Grant in the amount of $3,500,000.00 for the Kansas City Brownfield RLF Program conditioned upon the submittal of an application for funding and the execution of an amendment to EPA Cooperative Agreement No. 4B-97798101 governing use of the funds; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. The Director of the City Planning and Development Department is authorized to apply for and accept a Supplemental Brownfield RLF Grant from the EPA in the amount of $3,500,000.00.
Section 2. That revenue in the following account of the Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund is estimated in the following amount:
25-2550-640001-476722-G64SBRLF EPA- Brownfield Revolving Loan $3,500,000.00
Section 3. That the sum of $3,500,000.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund to the following account:
25-2550-645020-A-G64SBRLF Brownfield Federal Grants $ 397,249.00
25-2550-645020-B-G64SBRLF Brownfield Federal Grants $3,102,751.00
TOTAL $3,500,000.00
Section 4. That the Director of City Planning and Development is authorized to enter into an amended cooperative agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency governing the use of the grant funds. A copy of the amendment, in substantial form, is on file in the office of the Director of City Development.
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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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Abigail Judah
Assistant City Attorney