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File #: 260143    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Referred
File created: 1/29/2026 In control: Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee
On agenda: 2/3/2026 Final action:
Title: Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Robinson Authorizing the City Manager to execute a $3,200,000.00 cooperative agreement with the American Jazz Museum, Inc. to implement Phase I of a redevelopment plan for the Museum; reducing appropriations in the amount of $1,200,000.00 from the Capital Improvements Fund; appropriating $1,200,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Fund; appropriating $2,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Convention and Sports Complex Fund; designating requisitioning authority, and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsors: Melissa Robinson

ORDINANCE NO. 260143

 

 

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Sponsor: Councilmember Melissa Robinson

 

Authorizing the City Manager to execute a $3,200,000.00 cooperative agreement with the American Jazz Museum, Inc. to implement Phase I of a redevelopment plan for the Museum; reducing appropriations in the amount of $1,200,000.00 from the Capital Improvements Fund; appropriating $1,200,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Fund; appropriating $2,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Convention and Sports Complex Fund; designating requisitioning authority, and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

 

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WHEREAS, the mission of the American Jazz Museum is to celebrate and exhibit the experience of jazz as an original American art form through research, exhibition, education, and performance at one of the country’s jazz crossroads - 18th and Vine; and

 

WHEREAS, the Council deems support of the American Jazz Museum to be a worthy expenditure of City funds; and

 

WHEREAS, Lord Cultural Resources completed a Redevelopment Plan for the American Jazz Museum to include: adaptive reuse of an existing building, sustainable design/elements, placement of the 180-200 seated person capacity Blue Room to the current temporary gallery area east of the Atrium, expanded restroom facilities, rearrangement of Back of House spaces for ease of access, redevelopment of existing Blue Room space to a café and expanded retail area, John Baker exhibit space to be moved to existing theater area, existing retail area to be re-envisioned as a children’s play area, and current John Baker and incubator space to become the new Temporary Exhibit Space; and

 

WHEREAS, funding is needed in order to implement Phase I of the Redevelopment Plan to financially sustain the Museum; NOW,THEREFORE

 

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1.  That the City Manager is hereby authorized to negotiate and execute a $3,200,000.00 cooperative agreement with the American Jazz Museum, Inc. to implement Phase I of a redevelopment plan and such plan shall include a $300,000 match from the American Jazz Museum for a total project cost of $3,500,000.

 

Section 2.  That the appropriation in the following account of the Capital Improvement Fund, Fund No. 3090, is hereby reduced by the following amount:

 

26-3090-128300-B-89009995                    3rd District PIAC Contingency                                          $1,200,000.00

 

Section 3.  That the sum of $1,200,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Fund, Fund No. 3090, to the following account:

 

26-3090-078302-B-######07P26JAZZPH1                            American Jazz Museum Phase 1                      $1,200,000.00

 

Section 4. That the sum of $2,000,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Convention and Sports Complex Fund, Fund No. 5370, to the following account:

 

26-5370-078302-B-07P26JAZZPH1                                                American Jazz Museum Phase 1                      $2,000,000.00

 

                     Section 5. That the Director of General Services is designated as the requisitioning authority for Account No. 26-3090-078302-B-###### and 26-5370-078302-B-########.

 

                     Section 6. That this ordinance is relating to the appropriation of money and the expense of government is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Section 503 (a)(3)(B) and Section 503 (a)(3)(C) 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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William Choi

Interim Director of Finance

 

Approved as to form:

 

 

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Dustin E. Johnson

Assistant City Attorney

 

 




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