ORDINANCE NO. 220630
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Authorizing the Director of City Planning and Development to apply for and accept a United States Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Supplemental Grant in the amount of $3,900,000.00; estimating and appropriating revenue in the amount of $3,900,000.00 in certain Brownfield Revolving Loan Funds; and authorizing the execution of a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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WHEREAS, the City accepted a Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund (“Brownfield RLF”) grant in 2000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in the amount of $500,000.00 as authorized by Ordinance No. 001210; and
WHEREAS, the City created the Kansas City Brownfields RLF Program to make loans and subgrants of RLF grant funds for the cleanup of Brownfield sites in Kansas City, Missouri; and
WHEREAS, the City in 2007 accepted supplemental funding from the EPA in the amount of $500,000.00 to increase capitalization of the Kansas City Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund as authorized by Ordinance No. 070894; and
WHEREAS, the City in 2010 accepted additional supplemental funding from the EPA in the amount of $600,000.00 and American Revitalization and Recovery Act funding in the amount of $560,000.00 to increase capitalization of the Kansas City Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund as authorized by Ordinance No. 100138; and
WHEREAS, the City in the years 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019 accepted additional supplemental funding from the EPA in a total amount of $1,823,841.00 to increase capitalization of the Kansas City Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund, as authorized by Ordinance Nos. 120849 and 140732, Resolution No. 150693, and Ordinance Nos. 160539, 180581, 190633 and 190773, respectively; and
WHEREAS, the Brownfield RLF grant is an important source of low-interest, partially-forgivable loan capital that can be used to finance the cleanup of abandoned and underutilized properties, to help create jobs and new economic opportunities for economically distressed communities in Kansas City; and
WHEREAS, the EPA has offered the City a Supplemental RLF Grant in the amount of $3,900,000.00 for the Kansas City Brownfields RLF Program conditional upon the submittal of an application for funding and the execution of a separate EPA Cooperative Agreement governing use of the funds; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. The Director of the Department of City Planning and Development is authorized to apply for and accept a Supplemental Brownfield RLF Grant from the EPA in the amount of $3,900,000.00.
Section 2. That revenue in the following account of the Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund is estimated in the following amount:
23-2550-640001-476722-G64SBRLF Supplemental Brownfield RLF
Grant $3,900,000.00
Section 3. That the sum of $3,900,000.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Revolving Loan Fund to the following account:
23-2550-645020-A-G64SBRLF Supplemental Brownfield RLF
Grant $ 351,000.00
23-2550-645020-B-G64SBRLF Supplemental Brownfield RLF
Grant 3,549,000.00
TOTAL $3,900,000.00
Section 4. That the Director of City Planning and Development is authorized to enter into an amended cooperative agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency governing the use of the grant funds. A copy of the amendment, in substantial form is on file in the office of the Director of City Development.
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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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Tammie Queen
Director of Finance
Approved as to form and legality:
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Matthew Cooper
Associate City Attorney