ORDINANCE NO. 050550

Authorizing a $603,000.00 contract contingency increase with Taylor Kelly, L.L.C. for additional renovation work in connection with the Municipal Auditorium Arena Improvements project; and authorizing the expenditure of previously appropriated funds in the amount of $603,000.00.

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. CS050253 with. Taylor Kelly, L.L.C. for additional construction work in connection with the Municipal Auditorium Arena Improvements, Project No. 281-04097-1, which was approved by Ordinance No. 041348, passed December 16, 2004, from $2,804,116.00 to $3,407,116.00 in the additional amount of $603,000.00.

Section 2. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to expend the additional sum of $603,000.00 from funds previously appropriated to Account No. AL-3390-897726-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