ORDINANCE NO. 240807, AS AMENDED
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Sponsor(s): Mayor Quinton Lucas, Mayor Pro-Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw, Councilmembers Andrea Bough, Darrell Curls, Nathan Willett, Melissa Patterson Hazley, Crispin Rea and Lindsay French
Authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract for the construction of a Downtown Booking Facility located at the headquarters of the Kansas City Police Department; reducing the transfer between the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund and the General Debt and Interest Fund; appropriating the amount of $16,000,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Safety Sales Tax fund for the purpose of constructing a Kansas City Police Department Downtown Booking Facility consisting of capacity for 144 individuals with 55 overnight beds; designating requisitioning authority; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, the City has outstanding detention and rehabilitation needs; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to construct a Downtown Booking Facility at Kansas City Police Department Headquarters to provide for detention capacity of 144 individuals with 55 overnight beds; and
WHEREAS, all 144 holding cell and overnight bed spaces at said Downtown Booking Facility will be suitable for stays of 0-24 hours, with a maximum 72-hour stay available for each individual detainee; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to commence construction of the Downtown Booking Facility in the first quarter of calendar year 2025 and desires to begin operation of said facility by 2026; and
WHEREAS, the City Council sees the Downtown Booking Facility as just one step to address detention needs and continues to see the need for a Detention and Rehabilitation Facility; and
WHEREAS, the City uses a portion of the Public Safety Sales Tax to make debt service payments on General Obligation bonds issued pursuant to 2010 voted authorization through a budgeted trans...
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