RESOLUTION NO. 951551

Establishing the Community Infrastructure Committee for the purpose of investigating and identifying the City's infrastructure needs.

WHEREAS, significant infrastructure deficits have been identified and reported in recent years by various groups including the City Council, City staff, and the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce; and

WHEREAS, the Citizen's Budget Review Commission and the City Manager have recommended that the City significantly increase its annual appropriations for capital improvements; and

WHEREAS, the City Auditor has recommended that the City make improvements to its annual capital budget and long-term infrastructure planning practices; and

WHEREAS, the City Manager's Infrastructure Performance Team produced a base line report on the City's capital improvement and infrastructure maintenance planning and funding practices that indicated specific areas where improvements could be made; and

WHEREAS, the City Council previously adopted Resolution No. 950480 directing the City Manager to develop a comprehensive infrastructure plan and to report to the City Council a proposed process on how such a plan would be developed and how that process would involve the participation of staff, citizens, and councilmembers and how that process would relate to the FOCUS Kansas City project; and

WHEREAS, the City Manager has reported to the City Council on a recommended process for producing the comprehensive infrastructure plan; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That a thirty member Community Infrastructure Committee is hereby created for the purpose of investigating and identifying the City's infrastructure needs, assessing the condition of existing capital assets, establishing goals to guide the development of the annual capital budget and long-term capital improvement plans, developing policies and criteria for prioritizing infrastructure and deferred maintenance needs, identifying options for addressing and funding those priority needs, assessing the City's current infrastructure planning practices and comparing them to "best practices", and developing long-term strategies aimed at resolving the City's capital improvement and deferred maintenance needs:

1. The Committee's work shall be led by two co-chairs appointed by the Mayor,

one representing the business community and the other the City's neighborhoods.

2. Half of the remaining membership of the Committee shall be appointed by

the Mayor and City Council with the Mayor and each Councilmember making one appointment each. The Committee co-chairs will appoint the remainder of the Committee membership.

3. Committee membership shall include representation from the PIAC, City Plan

Commission, all City Council districts, regional chambers of commerce as well as the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, and infrastructure reliant business. In addition, Committee membership shall reflect reasonably proportional geographic representation.

4. In addition to regular Committee membership, the Committee may appoint

special assistants and additional members to specific sub-committees.

5. The City staff shall provide support and professional and technical assistance

to the Committee.

Section 2. That the Community Infrastructure Committee shall serve as a special sub-committee of the FOCUS City-Wide Physical Framework Work Team and shall integrate its work with other related efforts being conducted by the City.

Section 3. That the Committee's work shall be divided into short-term and long-term elements with the short-term element directed toward improvement to be undertaken over the next two years with special emphasis placed on dealing with the City's deferred maintenance backlog, and the long-term element directed at the development of a long-term comprehensive infrastructure plan and a framework for the development of subsequent long-term plans.

Section 4. That the Committee shall regularly report to the City Council on its progress; shall submit to the City Council all recommendations for the Council's review, adoption, or amendment; and shall periodically meet with the Council in work sessions to deal with particular issues of policy, procedure or priority.

Section 5. That the Committee will solicit input from the citizens of Kansas City through surveys, public hearings, and other means and will also provide regular feedback to the community regarding the findings and work of the Committee.

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