ORDINANCE NO. 190550

Estimating revenues in the amount of $10,500,000.00 in the Capital Improvement Fund; appropriating that amount to the N. Brighton Avenue from N.E. 58th Street to Pleasant Valley Road Project; authorizing the Director of Public Works Department to enter into a construction contract for $12,071,324.33 with Clarkson Construction Company; authorizing a construction observation contract for $450,000.00 with Affinis Corp.; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

WHEREAS, the N. Brighton Avenue from N.E. 58th Street to Pleasant Valley Road project is part of the Shoal Creek Parkway Tax Increment Financing Plan; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Real Property Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act, Sections 99.800 to 99.865 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, as amended (the “Act”), the City Council of Kansas City, Missouri (the “Council”) by Ordinance No. 54556 passed on November 24, 1982, and thereafter repealed and amended in certain respects by Committee Substitute for Ordinance No. 911076, as amended, passed on August 29, 1991, Ordinance No. 100089, passed on January 28, 2010, Ordinance No. 130986, passed on December 19, 2013, and Committee Substitute for Ordinance No. 140823, as amended, passed on June 18, 2015 (the “Authorizing Ordinances”) created the Tax Increment Financing Commission of Kansas City, Missouri (the "Commission"); and

WHEREAS, on November 10, 1994, the Council passed Ordinance No. 941443, which accepted the recommendations of the Commission as to the approval of Shoal Creek Parkway Tax Increment Financing Plan (the “Redevelopment Plan” or “Plan”) and the designation of the Redevelopment Area described thereby as an economic development area, and authorized the Commission to take all such action as may be needed to effectuate the Redevelopment Plan; and

WHEREAS, the City Council, by its passage of a series of ordinances, has amended the Redevelopment Plan on numerous occasions since it was first approved; NOW, THEREFORE

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the revenue in the following account of the Capital Improvements Fund is hereby estimated in the following amount:

Section 2. That the appropriation in the following account of the Capital Improvements Fund is hereby increased by the following amount:

Section 3. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to execute a construction contract with Clarkson Construction Company, in the amount of $12,071,324.33 for the N. Brighton Avenue from N.E. 58th Street to Pleasant Valley Road Project, from funds hereby and previously appropriated to the following accounts:

A copy of the contract is on file in the Public Works Department.

Section 4. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to execute a construction observation contract with Affinis Corp., in the amount of $450,000.00 for the N. Brighton Avenue from N.E. 58th Street to Pleasant Valley Road project, from funds hereby appropriated to the following account:

A copy of the contract is on file in the Public Works Department.

 Section 5. That the Director of Public Works is hereby designated requisitioning authority for Account No. 20-3090-895911 in the Capital Improvements Fund.

Section 6. That this ordinance, relating to the design, repair, maintenance or construction of a public improvement and appropriating money, is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Sections 503(a)(3)(C) and (D) of the City Charter and shall take effect in accordance with Section 503, City Charter.

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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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Dustin E. Johnson

Assistant City Attorney