ORDINANCE NO. 961223

Authorizing the Director of Public Works to enter into a contract with American Seating Company in the amount of $290,283.62 for lower and upper bowl seating work for the Kemper Arena Expansion Project and approving the expenditure of previously appropriated funds in the amount of $290,283.62 therefor.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the work of furnishing and installing additional lower and upper bowl arena seating as part of the expansion of Kemper Arena, 1800 Genessee, Kansas City, Missouri, is hereby provided for and authorized.

Section 2. That the work shall be done in accordance with the plans, specifications and the contract therefore between Kansas City, Missouri, through its Director of Public Works, and American Seating Company, in the amount of $290,283.62, which contract is hereby approved and confirmed. A copy of the contract is on file in the office of the Director of Public Works and is incorporated herein by reference.

Section 3. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $290,283.62 from funds heretofore appropriated to Account No. 97-396-089-7746-T as and for consideration in the aforesaid contract.

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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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Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Assistant City Attorney