COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR ORDINANCE NO. 210825

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Waiving a certain procedure of the City’s Arterial Street Impact Fee Code; appropriating $1,660,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Arterial Street Impact Fee Fund to various accounts in the Arterial Street Impact Fee Fund; designating requisitioning authority; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

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WHEREAS, Committee Substitute for Ordinance No. 190532 appropriated collected impact fee funds for the end of Fiscal Year 2018/19 and was the last impact fee allocation ordinance providing for a true accounting and balance of the Arterial Street Impact Fee Fund program; and

                     WHEREAS, the Parks and Recreation Department has opened construction bids on Red Bridge Road  but due to rising labor and material cost inflation additional funding is needed to award the construction contract and the Ward Parkway two-way conversion needs to be integrated into the streetcar project which is currently under design; and

WHEREAS, this ordinance recognizes the collected revenue in FY 2019/20 and FY 2020/21 in Arterial Street Impact Fee Districts G and H and allocates the collected revenue into the two project accounts; NOW THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That pursuant to City Code Section 39-6(i), each year at budget time the Arterial Street District Advisory committees shall make recommendations of the appropriations to be spent from each district’s trust account and the Council shall approve, modify or deny the recommendation  expenditures of the trust accounts monies.  However, no recommendations were proposed by any of the Arterial Street District Advisory Committees as to how appropriations should be spent from the trust accounts for each benefit district at the time the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 annual budgets were proposed, thus, this recommendation process is hereby waived.

Section 2. That the sum of $1,660.000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Arterial Street Impact Fee fund to the following accounts in the Arterial Street Impact Fee fund:

South Development District (G)

22-2430-708016-B-70192304                                          Red Bridge Road - Wornall to Holmes                       1,500,000.00

Plaza Development District (H)

22-2430-897420-B-89004836                                          Ward Parkway Two Way Conversion                          160,000.00  

TOTAL                                                                                      $1,660,000.00

Section 3. The Director of Public Works is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 22-2430-897420. 

Section 4. That the Director of Parks and Recreation is hereby designed as requisitioning authority for Account No. 22-2430-708016.

Section 5.  That this ordinance, relating to the design, repair, maintenance or construction of a public improvement, is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Section 503(a)(3)(D) of the City Charter and shall take effect in accordance with Section 503 of the City Charter.

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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 Queen

Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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                                                                                    Nicole Rowlette

Assistant City Attorney