ORDINANCE NO. 250889
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Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Reducing appropriations in the amount of $15,028,929.97 in the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund; temporarily borrowing $2,971,070.03 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Fund pursuant to Section 806(a)(3) of the City Charter and estimating revenue in the same amount to the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund; appropriating $25,000,00.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund; and directing the Director of Finance to repay the temporary loan to the Capital Improvements Fund by April 30, 2027; designating requisitioning authority; authorizing the Director of General Services to execute contract EV-4177 in an amount up to $19,225,000.00 with Brown & Root Industrial Services, Inc for construction of a Temporary Modular Jail; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, the City has contracts with Johnson County, Missouri and Vernon County, Missouri to provide detention services; and
WHEREAS, the City has outstanding detention and rehabilitation needs; and
WHEREAS, the expected surge of visitors to the City for the upcoming 2026 World Cup may further strain the City’s limited rehabilitation and detention resources; and
WHEREAS, Committee Substitute for Resolution No. 250393 directed the City Manager to research and evaluate the feasibility of establishing a temporary modular jail facility, including central booking capabilities, to meet the City’s current rehabilitation and detention needs; and
WHEREAS, Council desires to provide additional rehabilitation and detention facilities in the form of a modular jail facility; and
WHEREAS, cost estimates for a Modular Jail Facility have come back and the cost for 130 beds is approximately $25 million dollars at a cost of approximately $192,300.00 per bed; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 240807, As Amended, appropriated the amount of $16,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax fund for the purpose of constructing a Kansas City Police Department Downtown Booking facility; and
WHEREAS, the Public Safety Sales Tax fund is forecast to have an estimated ending balance of more than $9 million at the end of Fiscal Year 2026 and it is the intent of City Council to utilize $7 million of fund balance to support the construction of a modular jail facility; and
WHEREAS, the Capital Improvement Sales Tax Fund is forecast to have an estimated ending balance of more than $21 million at the end of Fiscal Year 2026; and
WHEREAS, Council desires to utilize up to $15,028,929.97 of funds previously appropriated in Ordinance No. 240807, As Amended, for the construction of a temporary modular jail facility; and
WHEREAS, upon approval by two-thirds of the City Council, Section 806 of the City Charter allows for the borrowing of monies from unreserved and undesignated fund balances of a fund to meet the operating and capital cash requirements of another fund, provided also that the Council makes provision for repayment within a designated time and that the repayment include interest at a reasonable rate; and
WHEREAS, Council desires to borrow up to $3 million from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Fund with the intent to repay the loan from revenue in the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund within the designated time; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. Reducing an appropriation in the amount of $15,028,929.97 in the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund in the following account:
26-2320-077700-E-07P24071 KCPD Downtown Booking Facility $15,028,929.97
Section 2. That in accordance with Section 806(a)(3) of the City Charter, the Director of Finance is hereby directed to temporarily borrow from the unappropriated fund balance of the Capital Improvements Fund, Fund No. 3090, the amount of $2,971,070.03 to be transferred as follows:
26-3090-129998-X Transfer to Public Safety Sales
Tax Fund $2,971,070.03
Section 3. Estimating revenue in the Public Safety Sales Tax fund, Fund No. 2320, in the amount of $2,971,070.03 to the following account:
26-2320-120000-503090 Transfer from the Capital
Improvements Fund $2,971,070.03
Section 4. That the sum of $25,000,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund, Fund No. 2320, in the following amount:
26-2320-077700-E-07P26022 Modular Jail Facility $25,000,000.00
Section 5. That the Director of Finance is hereby directed to include in the FY27 Submitted Budget a transfer of $2,971,070.03 from the unappropriated fund balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund, Fund No. 2320, in repayment of the temporary loan from the Capital Improvements Fund, Fund No. 3090, no later than April 30, 2027.
Section 6. That the Director of Finance is hereby directed to transfer any interest revenue allocated to the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund, Fund No. 2320, as a result of this temporary loan, to the Capital Improvements Fund, Fund No. 3090, at such time when the transfer to repay the temporary loan is completed pursuant to Section 806(a)(3) of the City Charter.
Section 7. That the Director of General Services is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 2320-077700-E-07P26022 and that the Director of Finance is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 3090-129998-X.
Section 8. That the Director of General Services is hereby authorized to execute contract EV-4177 an amount up to $19,225,000.00 with Brown & Root Industrial Services, Inc for construction of a Temporary Modular Jail and enter into such other agreements as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this ordinance.
Section 9. That this ordinance, relating to the design, repair, maintenance, or construction of a public improvement and appropriating money, is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Section 503(a)(3) of the City Charter and shall take effect in accordance with the same.
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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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William Choi
Interim Director of Finance
Approved as to form:
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Samuel Miller
Assistant City Attorney