ORDINANCE NO. TMP-7385
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Sponsor: Director of Public Works
Appropriating $2,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Streetcar Fund to the Kansas City Streetcar Main Street Extension project; authorizing Amendment No. 9 to the Design Professional Services Agreement with HDR Engineering, Inc. in the amount of $263,855.00 for a total contract amount of $21,219,686.87; recognizing that the amendment is subject to Federal Transit Administration requirements; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, pursuant to the TDD Act, the Kansas City Main Street Rail Transportation Development District (the “District”) was established on August 11, 2017, by Order of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, for the purpose of undertaking or causing to be undertaken, and funding, along with other sources, the design, construction, ownership and/or operation of (a) the Initial Phase in the place and stead of the Downtown Streetcar District, and (b) an extension of the Initial Phase, running south from Union Station generally along Main Street with a terminus in the general vicinity of the University of Missouri - Kansas City’s Volker campus (the “Phase 2 Line” or the “Main Streetcar Extension,” and collectively with the Initial Phase, the “Streetcar System”); and
WHEREAS, the District, the City and the Authority have entered into a Cooperative Agreement for Streetcar Phase 2, as may be amended and restated from time to time (the “Cooperative Agreement”), pursuant to which the City, the District and the Authority established the roles and responsibilities of the parties in connection with the design, construction, management and operation of the Streetcar System and the City agrees to deposit, subject to annual appropriation, certain sums (the “City’s Annual Contribution”) into the Streetcar Fund established under the Cooperative Agreement, and the Initial Phase Cooperative Agreement has been terminated; and...
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