COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR ORDINANCE NO. 150567

Authorizing a Third Amendment to an Agreement with HDR Engineering, Inc. for approximately $700,000.00 for the Downtown Streetcar Transit System; appropriating $1,627,500 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance in the Streetcar Fund to the Streetcar Authority account; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

WHEREAS, the City, the Kansas City Streetcar Authority, and the Kansas City Downtown Streetcar Transportation Development District have mutually agreed that $1,627,500 of the surplus funds in the Streetcar Fund shall be used for outstanding project needs including insurance, furnishings, technology and a wheel truing machine for the vehicle maintenance facility; and an additional allocation to the Authority Operating and Maintenance Reserve; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the Director of the Public Works Department is hereby authorized to execute a $699,713.00 third amendment to an agreement with HDR Engineering, Inc., for Project No. 89022000 - Downtown Streetcar Transit System from funds previously appropriated to Account No. AL-3428-898044-B-89022000. A copy of the amendment is on file in the Public Works Department and is incorporated herein by reference.

Section 2. That the sum of $1,627,500.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance in the Streetcar Fund to the following accounts:

16-2085-121452-B Streetcar Authority $1,462,500.00

16-2085-078044-B-07001200 Streetcar Furnishings 165,000.00

TOTAL $1,627,500.00

Section 3. That this ordinance, relating to the design, repair, maintenance or construction of a public improvement and that it appropriates money, is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Section 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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Nelson V. Munoz

Assistant City Attorney