ORDINANCE NO. 080210

Authorizing an increase in the contingency of a contract with McCowanGordon Construction, L.L.C. for Project No. 89000035, Design-Build Fire Station No. 35 in the amount of $3,266,790.00; authorizing the City Manager to charge up to $1,000,000.00 for estimated project management costs for the entire project; designating requisitioning authority; and recognizing an emergency.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the contingency of the contract with McCowanGordon Construction, L.L.C. for Project No. 89000035, Design-Build Fire Station No. 35 for additional construction services is increased in the amount of $3,266,790.00.

Section 2. That the City Manager or his designee is hereby authorized to charge up to $1,000,000.00 for project management costs associated with this project. 

Section 3. That the City Manager is hereby authorized to expend funds up to the amount of $2,909,202.00 from previously appropriated funds in Account No. 08-2300-238827-B for the contract.

Section 4. That the City Manager is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 08-2300-238827.

Section 5. That this ordinance relating to the design, repair, maintenance or construction of a public improvement is recognized as an emergency measure within the provisions of Section 503 of the City Charter and shall take effect in accordance with that section.

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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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Wanda Gunter

Acting Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Nelson V. Munoz

Assistant City Attorney