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