ORDINANCE NO. 260935
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Sponsor: Director of Water Services Department
Approving funds in the amount of $1,449,048.68 for construction and installation of a water utility infrastructure betterment for Phase 1 roadway access for the Betterment and Improvement Funding Agreement between the City of Kansas City, Missouri, and Port Authority; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE recommends “Advance and Do Pass, Debate.”
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WHEREAS, City Council passed Committee Substitute for Ordinance No. 260449, as amended, on May 14, 2026, authorizing and approving the execution and delivery of a Betterment and Improvement Funding Agreement between the City of Kansas City, Missouri (City) and Port Authority (Port KC) for the purposes of reimbursing certain water utility infrastructure to be constructed on the City's behalf, accepting certain rights-of-way and easements, granting certain easements, conveying certain property, waiving certain fees and pedestrian requirements, and authorizing the execution, delivery and recording of such documents as are required to effectuate the foregoing, all in furtherance of road and bridge work for the Missouri River Terminal Project; and
WHEREAS, the Missouri River Terminal will be a multimodal facility intended to serve as one of the primary intermodal facilities incorporating rail, road and river traffic for imports, exports and throughputs throughout the Kansas City Metro Area; and
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the Missouri River Terminal, Port KC is constructing a bridge extending across the Blue River and certain roads connected thereto; and
WHEREAS, the City owns certain real property generally located along the banks of the Blue River and bound by Interstate 435 on the west, the Port KC property on the south, the east property line of the Port KC property on the east, and 8400 Hawthorne Road, Kansas City 64120 on the north; and
WHEREAS, the project requires that a w...
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