Kansas City - File #: 250382

• File #: 250382
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Held
• File created: 4/30/2025
• In control: Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee
• On agenda: 5/6/2025
• Title: Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas Reducing previously appropriated funds in the Public Mass Transportation Fund by $3,250,000.00; appropriating $3,250,000.00 from the unappropriated fund balance of the Public Mass Transportation Fund to the Kansas City Area Transport Authority ("KCATA") for the purpose of ensuring current headway times for all routes for the next six months and funding IRIS service for the next month; reducing previously appropriated funds in the Street Maintenance Fund by $2,350,000.00 and appropriating the same amount; requiring detailed accounting and audit provisions; authorizing the City Manager to execute an agreement or amendment with KCATA requiring KCATA to maintain current headway times on all routes for a period of six months and for IRIS service to continue for one month and to comply with established reporting requirements; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
• Sponsors: Quinton Lucas

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/6/2025	1	Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee
5/1/2025	1	Council	referred

ORDINANCE NO. 250382


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Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas

Reducing previously appropriated funds in the Public Mass Transportation Fund by $3,250,000.00; appropriating $3,250,000.00 from the unappropriated fund balance of the Public Mass Transportation Fund to the Kansas City Area Transport Authority ("KCATA") for the purpose of ensuring current headway times for all routes for the next six months and funding IRIS service for the next month; reducing previously appropriated funds in the Street Maintenance Fund by $2,350,000.00 and appropriating the same amount; requiring detailed accounting and audit provisions; authorizing the City Manager to execute an agreement or amendment with KCATA requiring KCATA to maintain current headway times on all routes for a period of six months and for IRIS service to continue for one month and to comply with established reporting requirements; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

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WHEREAS, the City Council seeks to identify a source of funding in the amount of $2,750,000.00 to maintain current headway times on all KCATA routes through Ordinance No. 250369; and

WHEREAS, maintaining current public transportation service levels is essential to the mobility of Kansas City residents, particularly those who rely on public transit as their primary means of transportation; and

WHEREAS, the City Council passed Ordinance No. 250247 on April 3, 2025, authorizing an agreement not to exceed $46,717,626.00 with KCATA to provide transit services for a period of six months beginning May 1, 2025, and ending October 31, 2025; and

WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 250247 specifically stated that "This amount of funding will maintain operational levels for KCATA as they exist for the 2024-2025 fiscal year"; and

WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 250247 further included in Section 3(A) a requirement that performance measures "shall not include a reduction in service routes ...