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File #: 251070    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Referred
File created: 12/11/2025 In control: Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee
On agenda: 1/6/2026 Final action:
Title: Sponsor: City Manager's Office Waiving the limitations established by the Fund Balance and Reserve Policy in Section 2-1954 of the Code of Ordinances; appropriating $3,830,000.00 from the unappropriated fund balance of the General Fund for the construction of a Temporary Modular Jail Facility; directing the City Manager to include a request for appropriation in the FY27 submitted budget from the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund in the amount of $3,830,000.00 as a transfer to the General Fund; authorizing the Director of General Services to execute change order number 1 for contract EV-4711 in an amount up to $3,480,559.00 with Brown & Root Industrial Services; waiving Section 3-71 of the City's Code of Ordinances which requires new city facilities of a certain size to meet the LEED Gold Standard for the Front Street Detention Facility project; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsors: City Manager's Office
Attachments: 1. Approp-Admin-TEMP 6309, 2. Docket Memo Temp- 6309-Corrections Appropriation
ORDINANCE NO. 251070


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Sponsor: City Manager's Office

Waiving the limitations established by the Fund Balance and Reserve Policy in Section 2-1954 of the Code of Ordinances; appropriating $3,830,000.00 from the unappropriated fund balance of the General Fund for the construction of a Temporary Modular Jail Facility; directing the City Manager to include a request for appropriation in the FY27 submitted budget from the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund in the amount of $3,830,000.00 as a transfer to the General Fund; authorizing the Director of General Services to execute change order number 1 for contract EV-4711 in an amount up to $3,480,559.00 with Brown & Root Industrial Services; waiving Section 3-71 of the City's Code of Ordinances which requires new city facilities of a certain size to meet the LEED Gold Standard for the Front Street Detention Facility project; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

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WHEREAS, Ordinance No.250890 appropriated $22,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund for the construction and design professional services of a Temporary Modular Jail Facility; and
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WHEREAS, final estimated construction costs for the Front St Detention Facility are estimated to total an additional $3,480,599.00; and
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WHEREAS, given the accelerated schedule and time constraints associated with this project it is recommended that the city's LEED requirements be waived for this project; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the City Council hereby waives Section 2-1954(f)(4)(B)(iv), Code of Ordinances entitled "Fund Balance and Reserve Policy" are hereby waived for the limited purposes of this Ordinance.

Section 2. That the sum of $3,830,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the General Fund in the following amount:

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