ORDINANCE NO. 230834

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Sponsor:  Councilmember Eric Bunch

Authorizing the lease of certain City owned property at Berkley Riverfront Park to Port KC for the purpose of constructing public amenities. 

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WHEREAS, the City of Kansas City, Missouri (“City”) and the Port Authority of Kansas City, Missouri (“Port KC”) are political subdivisions of the State of Missouri and are authorized to lease real property, and to cooperate with each other to accomplish their purposes; and

WHEREAS, the City conveyed the majority of Berkley Riverfront Park to Port KC in 2011, and Port KC maintains and operates the same as a public greenspace; and

WHEREAS, the amenities at Berkley Riverfront Park currently include six sand volleyball courts, which have proven to be immensely popular and are regularly utilized for league play and by the general public; and

WHEREAS, the volleyball courts need to be relocated in order to accommodate development surrounding the KC Current projects; and

WHEREAS, Port KC and the City desire to ensure that the volleyball courts are preserved at Berkley Riverfront Park; and

WHEREAS, Port KC and the City have identified a new location in Berkley Riverfront Park that would allow the volleyball courts to be relocated; and

WHEREAS, a portion of the site where the volleyball courts are proposed to be relocated is currently owned by the City; and

WHEREAS, the portion currently owned by the City is already being used as public greenspace and its continued use for purposes of preserving valuable public amenities is in the public interest and does not impair any interest that the City would otherwise pursue; and

WHEREAS, the volleyball courts will be relocated and maintained at no cost to the City; and

WHEREAS, leases of City property that exceed one year must be approved by Ordinance pursuant to Section 3-201, Code of Ordinances; NOW THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the lease of the property generally depicted in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein, to Port KC for a term of fifteen (15) years and in the amount of $1.00 per annum is hereby approved.   The legal metes and bounds for the area depicted in Exhibit A shall be obtained by Port KC, at no expense to the City, by a registered land surveyor.

Section 2.   That the City Manager or his designee is hereby authorized to execute a lease agreement in such format as he shall determine to be appropriate for the purposes contemplated herein. 

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Approved as to form:

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Emalea Black

Associate City Attorney