ORDINANCE NO. 251053
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Sponsor: City Manager's Office
Authorizing the City Manager to enter into Amendment No. 1 to the 2025-2026 Transit Services Agreement with the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority ("KCATA") in the amount of $15,918,655.00; appropriating $5,000,000.00 for street resurfacing from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Sales Tax Fund (3090); reducing $5,000,000.00 of street resurfacing expenditures in the Public Mass Transportation Fund (2080); increasing $5,000,000.00 of street resurfacing expenditures in the Capital Improvements Sales Tax Fund (3090); reducing $5,000,000.00 in appropriations and appropriating $5,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Mass Transportation Fund (2080); appropriating $2,586,983.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Violence Prevention and Intervention Fund (2000); reducing Contingent Appropriation in the amount of $6,203,729.00 in the General Fund; waiving the limitations established by the Fund Balance and Reserve Policy in Section 2-1954 of the Code of Ordinances; appropriating $8,331,672.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the General Fund (1000); and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, the Fiscal Year 2025-26 budget appropriated $77,892,519 for the KCATA; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 250679 directed the City Manager to prepare a plan to fund KCATA at a total of $93.4 million; and
WHEREAS, the KCATA reports a revised funding need of $89,892,519, an increase of $12,000,000 over the Fiscal Year 2025-26 appropriation; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 250679 does not include cost of on-demand IRIS service which is estimated to total approximately $3.9 million; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager has recommended a combination of funding from a variety of sources including moving $5 million in street resurfacing expenses to the Capital Improvements Fund from the Public...
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