ORDINANCE NO. 050549

Authorizing a $275,000.00 contract contingency increase with Kraus-Anderson Construction Company for additional service corridors renovation work in connection with the Bartle Hall Renovation Improvements project; and authorizing the expenditure of previously appropriated funds in the amount of $275,000.00.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to increase the contingency for Contract No. PW040003 with. Kraus-Anderson Construction Company for additional service corridors construction work in connection with the Bartle Hall Renovation Improvements, Project No. 284-03030-6, which was approved by Ordinance No. 040784, passed July 15, 2004, from $2,398,000.00 to $2,673,000.00 in the additional amount of $275,000.00.

Section 2. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to expend the additional sum of $275,000.00 from funds appropriated to Account No. AL-3400-897240-B as and for consideration in the aforesaid contract contingency increase.

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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:

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Mark P. Jones

Assistant City Attorney