ORDINANCE NO. 230965
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Sponsor: Director of Water Services Department
Estimating revenue in the amount of $300,000.00 in the Capital Improvements Fund; appropriating this amount to the Milrey Stoddard Flood Control account; authorizing a Cooperative Agreement with Platte County, Missouri for the Design and Development, and Management of the Milrey-Stoddard Storm Water Improvements; and authorizing a $487,373.00 contract with Wilson and Company, Inc., for the design of the Milrey Stoddard Flood Control project.
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WHEREAS, Walnut Creek, a tributary of Rush Creek which generally parallels Stoddard Avenue between N.W. 73rd Street and N.W. 83rd Street, has been impacted by increased runoff and surrounding development patterns; and
WHEREAS, the City completed an initial phase of the project in the mid-2000's but did not complete the entire flood control mitigation due to a lack of funding; and
WHEREAS, neighbors along this section of creek complain of stream bank erosion, property flooding, roadway flooding, and damage to utilities; and
WHEREAS, Walnut Creek flows into unincorporated Platte County and the City and County seek to address watershed issues via an agreed upon project that provides flood relief in the upper reaches of Walnut Creek; and
WHEREAS, with the approval for Committee Substitute for Resolution No. 220937, the 2024-2028 Citywide Business Plan was approved which included the Submitted FY 2024-2025 GOKC Bond Five Year Plan which included funding in FY 2025-2026 to complete the remaining flood control mitigation for the Milrey-Stoddard area of Walnut Creek; and
WHEREAS, multiple studies have been completed to look at possible solutions to the problems along this section of creek with the most recent being the N.W. Stoddard Detention Preliminary Engineering Study completed by Wilson and Company, Inc. for the City dated June 13, 2019, and the County wishes to help accelerate the design of the project ...
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