ORDINANCE NO. 120611

 

Authorizing the TIGER street resurfacing project; estimating and appropriating $2,296,286.11 in the ARRA Stimulus Fund; authorizing a contract with Superior Bowen Asphalt Company, the Green Impact Zone Street Resurfacing Project; designating requisition authority; and recognizing an emergency.

 

WHEREAS, the contract will cold mill, resurface, stripe and adjust utilities in the Green Impact Zone; and

 

WHEREAS, the cost for this project totals $2,296,286.11; and

WHEREAS, the TIGER Grant will cover the entire cost; NOW, THEREFORE,

 

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1. That the work for the Green Impact Zone Street Resurfacing, Project No. 89020190 is provided for and authorized.

 

Section 2. That revenue in the following account of the ARRA Stimulus Fund is estimated in the following amount:

 

13-2530-890001-474630 Green Impact Zone-Street Resurfacing $2,296,286.11

 

Section 3. That the sum of $2,296,286.11 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the ARRA Stimulus Fund to the following account in the ARRA Stimulus Fund:

 

13-2530-898013-B Green Impact Zone-Street Resurfacing $2,296,286.11

 

Section 4. That the Director of Public Works is authorized to execute a contract, on behalf of the City, with Superior Bowen Asphalt Company LLC in the amount of $1,875,386.00 for the resurfacing of streets within the Green Impact Zone in the 2012-2013 season as shown in the contract and the performance of other incidental and related work in Kansas City, Missouri, city wide. A copy of the contract is on file in the Public Works Department.

 

Section 5. That the Director of Public Works is authorized to expend the sum of $2,296,286.11 from account 13-2530-898013-B-89020190.

 

Section 6. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to execute change orders to the contract to provide for additional incidental and related construction, to respond to requests from other departments for construction subject to the limitation of appropriated funds and the City Manager’s approval, and to charge these costs to the appropriate account.

Section 7. That the Director of Public Works is designated requisitioning authority for Account No. 13-2530-898013.

Section 8. That this ordinance is recognized as an emergency measure within the provisions of Section 503 of the City Charter in that it appropriates money, 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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Nelson V. Munoz

Assistant City Attorney