ORDINANCE NO. 220632

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Accepting a United States Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields Community-Wide Assessment Grant in the amount of $500,000.00, estimating revenue in the amount of $500,000.00 in the Brownfields Fund, appropriating funds to certain accounts within the Brownfields Fund and designating requisitioning authority.

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WHEREAS, on November 10, 2021, as authorized by Resolution No. 211012, an application for a Brownfields Community-Wide Assessment Grant (“Grant”) for the assessment of the Priority Site: Parade Park Homes South Site, and other non-priority sites including targeted located in Kansas City, Missouri was submitted to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”); and

WHEREAS, on May 13, 2022, EPA announced the award of a Brownfields Community-Wide Assessment Grant to the City of Kansas City, Missouri in the amount of $500,000.00; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the Director of the Department of City Planning and Development is authorized to accept from the EPA a Brownfields Community-Wide Assessment Grant in the total amount of $500,000.00.

Section 2. That revenue in the following account of the Brownfields Fund is estimated in the following amount:

23-2550-640001-476722-G64CWAG                     Community-Wide Assessment                        $500,000.00

Section 3. That $500,000.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Brownfields Fund to the following accounts:

23-2550-645020-A-G64CWAG                                          Community-Wide Assessment                     $  53,653.00

23-2550-645020-B-G64CWAG                                          Community-Wide Assessment                                            446,347.00

                                                                                                                                                   TOTAL                                                               $500,000.00

Section  4.                     That the Director of the Department of City Planning and Development is designated requisitioning authority for Account No. 23-2550-645020.

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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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                                                                                                                              Matthew Cooper

                                                                                                                              Assistant City Attorney