ORDINANCE NO. 211027

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Authorizing six (6) one-year leases with four (4) one-year options to renew for farm land at Kansas City International Airport and estimating revenue in the amount of $704,599.00.

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                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1.  That the Director of Aviation is hereby authorized to enter into six separate one year farming leases at Kansas City International Airport and accept revenues from March 1, 2022 through February 29, 2023 and to renew these leases upon the same terms and conditions for four additional one-year terms with the following:

WC Charolais, LLC:                                                               Unit 1 (cattle)

Gary Edlin:                                                                                    Units 2, 3 and 10 (crops)

Keefhaver Farms:                                                               Unit 4 (cattle), Unit 5A (hay) and Units 4A

and 7 (crops)

Walter Family Farms, LLC                                          Units 5 and 6 (crops)

Mike Long:                                                                                    Unit 8 (cattle)

Philip Farms:                                                                                    Unit 9 (cattle)

Section 2.  The Director of Aviation is authorized to negotiate leases with alternate farmers should any tenant be unable to fulfill their farming obligations.

Section 3.  That revenue is hereby estimated in the following account of the Aviation Fund, No. 8300:

22-8300-620000-470810                General Land Space Rent                                                                      $704,599.00

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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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                                                                                                                              Nelson V. Munoz

                                                                                                                              Deputy City Attorney