ORDINANCE NO. 240325
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Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas
Authorizing and directing the City Manager to solicit the procurement of contractors necessary for the construction of a holding cell facility located at the headquarters of the Kansas City Police Department; reducing transfers between the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund and the General Debt and Interest Fund; estimating additional revenue in the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund; appropriating the amount of $12,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax fund for the purpose of constructing a holding cell facility; designating requisitioning authority; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, the City has outstanding detention and rehabilitation needs; and
WHEREAS, the City uses a portion of the Public Safety Sales Tax to make debt service payments on General Obligation bonds issued pursuant to 2010 voted authorization through a budgeted transfer to the General Debt and Interest Fund; and
WHEREAS, due to recent increases in assessed valuation of taxable tangible property within the City, the General Debt and Interest Fund has an expected FY2023-24 ending fund balance in excess of $19 million making the FY2023-24 budgeted transfer from the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund unnecessary to meet the current and future obligations of the General Debt and Interest Fund; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the reduced transfer results in available funds in the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund and that the capital improvements contemplated herein are an acceptable use of this source of revenue; NOW THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. Authorizing and directing the City Manager to solicit the procurement of contractor(s) necessary for the construction of a holding cell facility located at the headquarters of the Kansas City Police Department.
Section 2. That revenue in the following account of t...
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