ORDINANCE NO. 050680

Authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract with Horrow Sports Ventures, LLC to provide consultant services related to sports and entertainment venues for one year with three renewal options; and authorizing the City Manager to expend $300,000.00.

BE IT ORDANIED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the City Manager is hereby authorized to execute on behalf of the City a contract with Horrow Sports Ventures, LLC to provide consultant services to the City related to sports and entertainment venues for one year beginning May 1, 2005 for an amount up to $300,000.00 for the first contract year, with three renewal options thereafter.

Section 2. That the City Manager is hereby authorized to expend $300,000.00 from funds appropriated in account AL-3405-897770-89000505-B.

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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 for the initial term of this Contract hereby incurred.

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Wanda Gunter

Acting Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Galen P. Beaufort

City Attorney