COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR ORDINANCE NO. 160941

Appropriating $141,113.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund; approving contracts with nonprofit organizations for the purpose of promoting neighborhoods through cultural, social, ethnic, historic, educational, and recreational activities; amending Section 3 of Ordinance No. 160734 to replace Mid-America Regional Council with KC Creates as the eligible nonprofit organization to serve as the fiscal agent and umbrella organization for production of the KCMO arts festival; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That of $141,113.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund to the following account:

17-2350-672100-B Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund $141,113.00

Section 2. The City Manager is authorized to execute contracts in the total amount of $141,113.00 with the following agencies in the respective amounts for the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund projects and activities from funds appropriated in Account No. 17-2350-672100-B. These contracts are hereby approved, in substantial form, as that on file in the City Manager’s Office.

Section 3. Amending Section 3 of Ordinance No. 160734 by replacing Mid-America Regional Council as the nonprofit organization and authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract with KC Creates as the eligible nonprofit organization to serve as the fiscal agent and umbrella organization in accordance of Section 2-933 of the City’s Code of Ordinances for production of the KCMO arts festival in the amount of $250,000.00.

Section 4. That this ordinance, which appropriates money, is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Section 503(a)(3)(C) 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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Randall J. Landes

Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Kathy Adams

Assistant City Attorney