ORDINANCE NO. 211015

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Authorizing the Director of General Services to execute a Further Restated and Amended Cooperative Agreement between the City and the Kansas City Missouri Homesteading Authority for the transfer of City owned property for public purposes and execute any related documents to direct the transfer of properties to such Authority.

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WHEREAS, the Kansas City Missouri Homesteading Authority ("KCMHA") is an affiliate of the City, and is to be governed by a Board composed of seven members, with five City employees appointed by the City Manager, and two are to be City Councilmembers appointed by the Mayor; and

WHEREAS, on August 20, 2020, the City Council passed Committee Substitute for Resolution No. 200679 which directed the City Auditor to evaluate whether City owned property could be leased or sold, resulting in the Performance Audit dated December 2020, which included Recommendation No. 6 that the Director of the General Services Department should confirm and track why the City owns each parcel of property and the department that is responsible for that parcel; and

WHEREAS, through that effort, the staff of the General Services Department has collaboratively worked with other departments including the Housing and Community Development Department created pursuant to the Second Committee Substitute for Ordinance No, 210235, as Amended, passed May 6, 2021 ("Housing Department") to determine if any of the City owned property may be useful in serving the public purposes of the Housing Department; and

WHEREAS, the Housing Department is authorized to develop and administer programs to increase new housing construction and opportunities and expanding and improving the rehabilitation of existing housing, and to plan and prepare grants in support of housing opportunities, and identify and seek other sources of funding for those efforts, and to provide leadership and staffing of the KCMHA; and

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