COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR ORDINANCE NO. 210668

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Accepting and approving a $467,000.00 grant from the Sunderland Foundation for a new parking lot at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Square Park, located at 1900 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard; estimating and appropriating $467,000.00 in the Capital Improvement Grants Fund; and designating requisitioning authority.

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WHEREAS, the City of Kansas City, Missouri Parks and Recreation Department is committed to substantial improvements at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Square Park; and

WHEREAS, the parking lot at Dr. Martin Luther King Square Jr. Park is in poor condition and in need of replacement; and

WHEREAS, the City of Kansas City, Missouri Parks and Recreation Department required additional funding to complete improvements to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Square Park; and

WHEREAS, the City of Kansas City Missouri Parks and Recreation submitted a request to the Sunderland Foundation to help fund improvements to the parking lot; and

WHEREAS, the Sunderland Foundation has awarded KC Parks with a grant in the amount of $467,000.00 to help pay for the needed parking lot at Dr. Martin Luther King Square Jr. Park; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1.  That a grant award agreement between the City of Kansas City, Missouri Parks and Recreation, acting through its Interim Director, and the Sunderland Foundation to help pay for the parking lot at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Square Park, to be completed by December 2022, is hereby accepted. A copy of the grant award agreement, in substantial form, is on file with the Department of Parks and Recreation.

Section 2. That revenue in the following account of the Capital Improvement Grants Fund is hereby estimated in the following amount:

22-3091-705095-487980-G70225031                      Sunderland Foundation Grant                      $467,000.00

Section 3. That the sum of $467,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the  Capital Improvement Grants Fund in the following account of the Fund:

22-3091-705095-B -G70225031                                           Sunderland Foundation Grant                                           $467,000.00

Section 4. That the Interim Director of Parks and Recreation is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 22-3091-705095 and is authorized to expend the sum of $467,000.00 heretofore appropriated to the account.

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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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                                                                                                                              Lana K. Torczon

                                                                                                                              Assistant City Attorney