Kansas City - File #: 250889

• File #: 250889
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Held
• File created: 10/2/2025
• In control: Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee
• On agenda: 10/14/2025
• Title: Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas Reducing appropriations in the amount of $15,028,929.97 in the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund; temporarily borrowing $2,971,070.03 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Fund pursuant to Section 806(a)(3) of the City Charter and estimating revenue in the same amount to the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund; appropriating $25,000,00.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund; and directing the Director of Finance to repay the temporary loan to the Capital Improvements Fund by April 30, 2027; designating requisitioning authority; authorizing the Director of General Services to execute contract EV-4177 in an amount up to $19,225,000.00 with Brown & Root Industrial Services, Inc for construction of a Temporary Modular Jail; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
• Sponsors: Quinton Lucas, Ryana Parks-Shaw, Nathan Willett
• Related files: 250890

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/14/2025	1	Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee
10/2/2025	1	Council	referred

ORDINANCE NO. 250889

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Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas

Reducing appropriations in the amount of $15,028,929.97 in the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund; temporarily borrowing $2,971,070.03 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Fund pursuant to Section 806(a)(3) of the City Charter and estimating revenue in the same amount to the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund; appropriating $25,000,00.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund; and directing the Director of Finance to repay the temporary loan to the Capital Improvements Fund by April 30, 2027; designating requisitioning authority; authorizing the Director of General Services to execute contract EV-4177 in an amount up to $19,225,000.00 with Brown & Root Industrial Services, Inc for construction of a Temporary Modular Jail; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

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WHEREAS, the City has contracts with Johnson County, Missouri and Vernon County, Missouri to provide detention services; and

WHEREAS, the City has outstanding detention and rehabilitation needs; and

WHEREAS, the expected surge of visitors to the City for the upcoming 2026 World Cup may further strain the City's limited rehabilitation and detention resources; and

WHEREAS, Committee Substitute for Resolution No. 250393 directed the City Manager to research and evaluate the feasibility of establishing a temporary modular jail facility, including central booking capabilities, to meet the City's current rehabilitation and detention needs; and

WHEREAS, Council desires to provide additional rehabilitation and detention facilities in the form of a modular jail facility; and

WHEREAS, cost estimates for a Modular Jail Facility have come back and the cost for 130 beds is approximately $25 million dollars at a cost of approximately $192,300.00 per bed; and

WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 240807, As Amended, ap...