Kansas City - File #: 230707

• File #: 230707
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 8/17/2023
• In control: Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations Committee
• On agenda: 9/13/2023
• Final action: 9/28/2023
• Title: Sponsors: Mayor Quinton Lucas and Councilmember Andrea Bough Authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and enter into all necessary agreements consistent with this ordinance, including but not limited to a pre-development agreement, development agreement, lease, and any other necessary agreements, with 816 Solar Consortium for development of a solar array on property at the Kansas City International Airport; provide a 180-day period for negotiations; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
• Sponsors: Quinton Lucas, Andrea Bough

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/28/2023	1	Council	Passed	Pass
9/14/2023	1	Council	Assigned to Third Read Calendar
9/13/2023	1	Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations Committee	Do Pass	Pass
8/23/2023	1	Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee
8/23/2023	1	Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations Committee	Hold on Agenda	Pass
8/17/2023	1	Council	referred

ORDINANCE NO. 230707

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Sponsors: Mayor Quinton Lucas and Councilmember Andrea Bough

Authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and enter into all necessary agreements consistent with this ordinance, including but not limited to a pre-development agreement, development agreement, lease, and any other necessary agreements, with 816 Solar Consortium for development of a solar array on property at the Kansas City International Airport; provide a 180-day period for negotiations; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

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WHEREAS, the City commissioned a feasibility study to assist in determining the potential size of a solar energy project on undeveloped land at the Kansas City International Airport; and

WHEREAS, the feasibility study determined that over 3,100 acres of vacant land at the Kansas City International Airport is suitable for a solar panel installation which could produce up to 500 megawatts of electricity, enough to power the equivalent of up to 70,000 average size homes; and

WHEREAS, the feasibility study recommended a phased approach as the fastest and most cost-effective way to expedite the project and enable the solar facilities to provide energy more quickly than other approaches; and

WHEREAS, the City issued a Request for Proposals 62220554 - Westside Solar Array at MCI ("Project"), requesting proposals for a turnkey project including all activities necessary to permit, engineer, design, fabricate, purchase, transport, install, operate and maintain a utility-scale solar photovoltaic system on the property; and

WHEREAS, the City desires that Phase I of the Project shall have no cost to rate payers or local tax payers; and

WHEREAS, the City desires that the negotiated agreement shall provide that existing rates of charge for electricity for local consumers do not increase as a result of the Project; and

WHEREAS, the City selected the proposal submitted by 81...