ORDINANCE NO. 120169

Authorizing the Director of Public Works to execute a cooperative agreement with the Tax Increment Financing Commission; estimating revenue in the Capital Improvements Sales Tax Fund in the amount of $824,308.00; and appropriating that amount for the construction of the Route 152 Trail.

WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 110490 authorized the Director of Public Works to execute agreements with the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission for various trail projects which included $1,000,000.00 of Federal Transportation Enhancement grants (Federal job numbers STP 3301 (440) and STP 3301 (445)) and for the construction of the Route 152 Trail from Ambassador Drive to Line Creek Parkway; and

WHEREAS, in Ordinance No. 990256, the Council accepted the recommendations of the Tax Increment Financing Commission of Kansas City (Commission) and approved the KCI Corridor Tax Increment Financing Plan (the Plan); and

WHEREAS, the Plan has been amended ten times with Ordinances 040618, 040619, 040620, 040621, 050104, 060326, 080211, 090260, 101007, and 110603; and

WHEREAS, during the course of the amendments, funding was identified for the design and construction of multi-purpose trails along Route 152 and I-29 (“T1”, “T2”, “T3”); and

WHEREAS, Ordinance 100798 authorized the Director of Public Works to execute a Cooperative Agreement with the Tax Increment Financing Commission for the design of the Route 152 Trail; and

WHEREAS, the funding in the KCI Corridor Tax Increment Financing Plan is providing the local match required to utilize the $1,000,000.00 federal grant; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the Director of Public Works is authorized to execute a cooperative funding agreement with the Tax Increment Financing Commission for the purpose of providing for the construction of the Route 152 Trail from Ambassador to Line Creek Parkway. The agreement is approved in substantial form as that on file in the office of the Director of Public Works, subject to the receipt of all required approvals.

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

12-3090-890001-485380-89020083 Contribution from TIF Commission $824,308.00

Section 3. That the sum of $824,308.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvement Fund Balance of the Capital Improvement Fund to the following account in the Capital Improvement Fund:

12-3090-898201-B-89020083 Route 152 Trail-Ambassador to Green Hills $412,154.00

12-3090-898201-B-89020183 Route 152 Trail-Green Hills to Line Creek 412,154.00

TOTAL $824,308.00

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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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Randall Landes

Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Nelson V. Munoz

Assistant City Attorney