ORDINANCE NO. 970668

Authorizing a $520,222.00 contract increase with Taylor Ball, L.C., for additional construction work and the expenditure of previously appropriated funds in the amount of $407,222.00 for said contract increase in connection with the Municipal Auditorium Arena Renovation Project.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to increase Contract No. 960425 with Taylor Ball, L.C., for Municipal Auditorium Arena Remodeling construction, which was heretofore approved by Ordinance No. 961113, September 6, 1996, from $2,347,000.00 to $2,867,222.00 for additional work in the amount of $520,222.00.

Section 2. That the Director of Public Works in addition to the sum of $113,000.00 as previously authorized for expenditure by Ordinance No. 961113, September 6, 1996, for additional work on Contract No. 960425 is hereby authorized to expend the additional sum of $407,222.00 from funds heretofore appropriated to Account No. 97-396-089-7747-T as and for consideration in the aforesaid contract 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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Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Assistant City Attorney