ORDINANCE NO. 150595

Reducing an appropriation in the Capital Improvements Fund in the amount of $225,000.00; appropriating that amount to the Little Blue Trace Trail project account in the Capital Improvements Fund; and authorizing the Director of Public Works to expend $675,000.00 for construction of the Little Blue Trace Trail.

WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 110417 authorized the Director of Public Works to enter into a Cooperative Agreement with Jackson County, Missouri, for construction of improvements for the Little Blue Trace Trail along the Little Blue River from Lee’s Summit Road to Longview Lake; and

WHEREAS, under the Cooperative Agreement, Kansas City would complete the design and Jackson County would construct and maintain the completed sections of the trail; and

WHEREAS, design and right of way acquisition has been completed to construct the first phase in Kansas City starting at Lee’s Summit Road and continuing to a half mile north of Little Blue Road; and

WHEREAS, the Cooperative Agreement stipulates that both entities will contribute 50% of the construction cost and right of way acquisition and this ordinance authorizes the transfer of the funds to the County; and

WHEREAS, with the transfer of the City’s contribution, work can begin this fall on this nearly two mile segment of the trail and be complete by the fall of 2016; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the appropriation in the following account of the Capital Improvements Fund is reduced by the following amount:

16-3090-708501-B-70161305 Little Blue Trace Trail $225,000.00

Section 2. That the sum of $225,000.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Fund to the following account:

16-3090-898509-B-89020123 Little Blue Trace Trail $225,000.00

Section 3. That the Director of Public Works is authorized to expend $675,000.00 from funds appropriated to Account No 16-3090-898509-B-89020123 to satisfy the agreement with Jackson County.

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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 J. Landes

Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Katherine Chandler

Assistant City Attorney