ORDINANCE NO. 240679
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Sponsor: City Manager
Authorizing the Director of Neighborhood Services to establish the Water and Sewer Service Line Assistance Program (“Program”) in the amount of $100,000.00 to support Kansas City small businesses and low-income residential property owners with private water service and sewer lateral line repairs; reducing appropriations in the Contingent Appropriation of the General Fund by $100,000.00; appropriating that amount in the General Fund for the purpose of the Water and Sewer Service Line Assistance Program; authorizing the Director of Neighborhood Services to establish guidelines for the eligibility, distribution and administration of the Program which will include the provision that the expenditure of repairs to private water service and/or sewer lateral lines at any one property shall not exceed $8,500.00; authorizing the Director of Public Works to exempt street resurfacing requirements as promulgated in the City’s Street Restoration policy (“SR-1”), authorized pursuant to the Code of Ordinances Section 64-125, “Standards for backfilling excavations and resurfacing,” for private water service and sewer lateral line repair projects approved pursuant to the Program; and directing the City Manager to review options for future funding of the Program to include other revenues of the water and sewer systems not generated from charges for water and sewer service.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the Director of Neighborhood Services is authorized to establish the Water and Sewer Service Line Assistance Program to assist Kansas City small businesses and low-income residential property owners with expenses associated with repairs, rehabilitation or replacement of private water service and sewer lateral lines that connect to the public infrastructure.
Section 2. That the Director of Neighborhood Services is authorized to establish guidelines for the eligibility, distribution and administration of the Program which will include the provision that the expenditure of funds for any repairs, rehabilitation or replacement of private water service and/or sewer lateral lines at any one property shall not exceed $8,500.00.
Section 3. Reducing the following appropriation in the General Fund by the following amount:
25-1000-179990-B Contingent Appropriation $100,000.00
Section 4. That the sum of $100,000.00 is hereby appropriated in the following account of the General Fund:
25-1000-572370-B Water and Sewer Service Line Assistance $100,000.00
Section 5. That the Director of Neighborhood Services is designated requisitioning authority for Account No. 25-1000-572370.
Section 6. Authorizing the Director of Public Works to exempt street resurfacing requirements as promulgated in the City’s Street Restoration policy (“SR-1”), as authorized pursuant to the Code of Ordinances Section 64-125, “Standards for backfilling excavations and resurfacing,” for private water service and sewer lateral line repair projects approved pursuant to the Water and Sewer Service Line Assistance Program.
Section 7. Directing the City Manager to review options for future funding of the Water and Sewer Line Assistance Program to include other revenues of the water and sewer systems not generated from charges for water and sewer service.
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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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Nicole Rowlette
Senior Associate City Attorney