File #: 240807    Version: Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/3/2024 In control: Council
On agenda: 9/19/2024 Final action: 9/19/2024
Title: Sponsor(s): Mayor Quinton Lucas, Mayor Pro-Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw, Councilmembers Andrea Bough, Darrell Curls, Nathan Willett, Melissa Patterson Hazley, Crispin Rea and Lindsay French Authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract for the construction of a Downtown Booking Facility located at the headquarters of the Kansas City Police Department; reducing the transfer between the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund and the General Debt and Interest Fund; appropriating the amount of $16,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax fund for the purpose of constructing a Kansas City Police Department Downtown Booking Facility consisting of capacity for 144 individuals with 55 overnight beds; designating requisitioning authority; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Sponsors: Quinton Lucas, Ryana Parks-Shaw, Andrea Bough, Darrell Curls, Nathan Willett, Melissa Patterson Hazley, Crispin Rea, Lindsay French
Attachments: 1. KCPD HQ - Detention Facility, 2. KCPD HQ Detenion Facility Admin_Approp_RMF, 3. KCPD Central Booking Floor Plan Options A + B, 4. Authenticated Ordinance 240807 A.A.

ORDINANCE NO. 240807, AS AMENDED

 

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Sponsor(s):  Mayor Quinton Lucas, Mayor Pro-Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw, Councilmembers Andrea Bough, Darrell Curls, Nathan Willett, Melissa Patterson Hazley, Crispin Rea and Lindsay French

 

Authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract for the construction of a Downtown Booking Facility located at the headquarters of the Kansas City Police Department; reducing the transfer between the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund and the General Debt and Interest Fund; appropriating the amount of $16,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax fund for the purpose of constructing a Kansas City Police Department Downtown Booking Facility consisting of capacity for 144 individuals with 55 overnight beds; 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 desires to construct a Downtown Booking Facility at Kansas City Police Department Headquarters to provide for detention capacity of 144 individuals with 55 overnight beds; and

 

WHEREAS, all 144 holding cell and overnight bed spaces at said Downtown Booking Facility will be suitable for stays of 0-24 hours, with a maximum 72-hour stay available for each individual detainee; and

 

WHEREAS, the City desires to commence construction of the Downtown Booking Facility in the first quarter of calendar year 2025 and desires to begin operation of said facility by 2026; and                      

 

WHEREAS, the City Council sees the Downtown Booking Facility as just one step to address detention needs and continues to see the need for a Detention and Rehabilitation Facility; 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 FY2023-24 ending fund balance in excess of $9 million and the FY2024-25 budgeted transfer from the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund to the General Debt and Interest Fund can therefore be reduced by $2,334,809.00; 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 the City Manager to execute a contract for the construction of a Downtown Booking Facility located at the headquarters of the Kansas City Police Department.

 

Section 2. That the appropriation in the following account of the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund is hereby reduced by the following amount:

 

25-2320-129998-905010                                          Tfr to General Debt and Interest                                          $2,334.809.00

 

Section 3. That the revenue in the following account of the General Debt and Interest Fund is hereby reduced by the following amount:

 

25-5010-120000-502320                                           Tfr from Public Safety Sales Tax                                          $2,334,809.00

 

Section 4. That the sum of $16,000,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund to the following account:

 

25-2320-077700-E-07P24071                                          KCPD Downtown Booking Facility                               $16,000,000.00

 

Section 5. That the Director of General Services is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 2320-077700-07P24071.

 

Section 6. That this ordinance is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Section 503(a)(3)(C) of the City Charter in that it appropriates money and shall take effect in accordance with that section.

 

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I hereby certify that there is a balance, otherwise unencumbered, to the credit of the appropriation to which the foregoing expenditure is to be charged, and a cash balance, otherwise unencumbered, in the treasury, to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made, each sufficient to meet the obligation hereby incurred.

 

 

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Tammy L. Queen

Director of Finance

 

Approved as to form:

 

 

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Samuel Miller

Assistant City Attorney