ORDINANCE NO. 220084

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Authorizing the Director of Water Services to execute a Cooperative Agreement with Westport Regional Business League (“WRBL”), a Missouri not-for-profit corporation, for the engineering evaluations and preliminary design of a Stormwater Management System along Mill Street between the entrance to Manor Square Parking Garage south to 43rd Street (“Plan”);  authorizing the Director of Water Services to expend a maximum amount of $510,000.00 for the Plan; and designating requisitioning authority.

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WHEREAS, the City previously commissioned the Westport Stormwater Management Plan (the “Plan”) which identified certain strategies to better manage stormwater in flood prone areas and to develop distributed green infrastructure where appropriate; and

WHEREAS, WRBL desires, in cooperation with the City and in furtherance of the Plan, to engage a consultant for the purpose of providing engineering evaluations and preliminary design services for green infrastructure and distributed storage strategies to manage stormwater (the “Project”) along Mill Street between the entrance to Manor Square parking garage South to 43rd Street; and

WHEREAS, by recommendation of its Public Improvement Advisory Committee, City has appropriated Five Hundred Ten Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($510,000.00) in its Fiscal Year 2021-2022 budget and designated spending authority for said appropriation to the Water Services Department towards the cost of preliminary design and engineering services for the Project; and

WHEREAS, City and WRBL have determined that it is in the best interest of the parties to enter into a Cooperative Agreement for the management of the Design Professional Services on the terms and conditions set forth in this Cooperative Agreement; and

WHEREAS, the Director of the Water Services Department is authorized to exercise the Department’s authority to execute the Agreement as delegated by the City Manager under the City Charter; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the Director of the Water Services Department is hereby authorized to execute a Cooperative Agreement (“Agreement”) with Westport Regional Business League, a Missouri not-for-profit corporation (“WRBL”), for providing engineering evaluations and preliminary design services for a Stormwater Management System along Mill Street between the entrance to Manor Square Parking Garage south to 43rd Street (“Plan”). Such Agreement will be substantially in the form on file with this Ordinance.  A copy of the agreement once executed will be on file with the Director of Water Services.         

Section 2. That the Director of Water Services is hereby authorized to expend up to the sum of $510,000.00 from Account No. 22-3090-808405-B-82000332, Flood Control NC4.

Section 3.  That the Director of Water Services is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 22-3090-808405-B.

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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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Nicole Rowlette

Assistant City Attorney