ORDINANCE NO. 230090

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Sponsor:  Mayor Quinton Lucas

Appropriating $750,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund; approving a contract in up to the same amount with the Greater Kansas City Sports Commission for the purpose of promoting neighborhoods and tourism in connection with a 2023 Chiefs Post Season Championship Celebration; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

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WHEREAS, § 92.336, RSMo, provides that ten percent of the proceeds of the City’s convention and tourism tax be committed to the Neighborhood Tourism and Development Fund (“NTDF”), to be used for the purpose of promoting such neighborhood through cultural, social, ethnic, historic, educational, and recreations events; and

WHEREAS, Council has provided a process for the NTDF Committee to make recommendations to the City Council for the expenditure of NTDF Funds in code Chapter 2, Art. VI,  Div. 9; and

WHEREAS, on January 26, 2022, the NTDF Committee voted to recommend that the City execute a contract in the amount of $750,000.00 with the Greater Kansas City Sports Commission for a potential 2023 Chiefs Post Season Championship Celebration; NOW, THEREFORE, 

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. Appropriating the sum of $750,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund to the following account:

23-2350-672100-619080                                          Neighborhood Tourist Dev CW                                          $750,000.00

Section 2. That the Manager of Procurement Services is authorized to execute a contract in a total amount up to $750,000.00 from the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund with the Greater Kanas City Sports Commission from the funds previously appropriated in Account No. 23-2350-672100-619080. The contracts is hereby approved in substantial form as that on file in the Neighborhood Services Department.

Section 3.  That this ordinance is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Section 503(a)(3)(C) of the City Charter in that it appropriates money and shall take effect in accordance with that section.

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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:

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Emalea Kaye Black

Assistant City Attorney