ORDINANCE NO. 220645
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Appropriating $50,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund to the Neighborhood Tourist Development Account; approving a contract in the amount of $86,400.00 with the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum for the Play Ball 2022: Celebrating Baseball’s Game Changers; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, §92.336, RSMo, provides that ten percent of the proceeds of the City’s convention and tourism tax be committed to the Neighborhood Tourism and Development Fund (“NTDF”), to be used for the purpose of promoting such neighborhood through cultural, social, ethnic, historic, educational, and recreations events; and
WHEREAS, Council has provided a process for the NTDF Committee to make recommendations to the City Council for the expenditure of NTDF Funds in code Chapter 2, Art. VI, Div. 9; and
WHEREAS, Council approved the NTDF Committee’s Recommendations for FY 2022-2023 projects in Ordinance No. 220342, passed on April 21, 2022; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 220342 authorized the Director of the Neighborhood and Housing Service Department to execute a contract with Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in the amount of $36,400.00 for the Play Ball 2022: Celebrating Baseball’s Game Changers event series; and
WHEREAS, Council wishes to increase the funding amount for the Play Ball 2022: Celebrating Baseball’s Game Changers event series by $50,000, and the next event in the series, the Hot Dog Festival, is scheduled for July 30, 2022; and
WHEREAS, the Play Ball 2022: Celebrating Baseball’s Game Changers event series provide a significant benefit to the City and the Historic 18th & Vine District, with the Hot Dog Festival alone previously drawing more than 10,000 people to the district for the celebration, which this year coincides with baseball legend John Jordan “Buck” O’Neil’s Induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the sum of $50,000 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund to the following account:
23-2350-672100-B Neighborhood Tourist Development $50,000.00
Section 2. That the Neighborhood Services Department is authorized to execute a contract in the total amount of $86,400.00, with the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum for the Play Ball 2022: Celebrating Baseball’s Game Changers event from funds previously appropriated in Account No. 22-2350-672100-619080 and funds appropriated in Section 1 herein. The contract is hereby approved in substantial form, as that on file in the Neighborhood Services Department.
Section 3. That this ordinance, appropriating money, is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Section 503(a)(3)(C) of the City Charter and shall take effect in accordance with Section 503 of the City Charter.
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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 and legality:
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Emalea Black
Assistant City Attorney