ORDINANCE NO. 071247

Authorizing the City Manager to execute an agreement with Tusa Consulting Services, providing for rebanding work on the Citys Radio Communication System; estimating revenue and appropriations in the sum of $75,000.00 in the General Fund; and designating requisitioning authority.

WHEREAS, rebanding of the Citys radio communication system is necessary as a result of Federal Communications Commission order 04-168 addressing the interference to public safety radio communication systems from the mobile radio service provider Sprint Nextel; and

WHEREAS, the Federal Communications Commission issued the order addressing the interference caused by cellular equipment in the 800 Megahertz radio frequency used by public safety radio systems by requiring Sprint Nextel to pay the expenses of re-banding such public safety radio systems: and

WHEREAS, the Federal Communications Commission order requires Sprint Nextel to compensate users of public safety radio communications systems for the costs of rebanding; and

WHEREAS, the City seeks assistance in rebanding its public safety radio communications system and will seek compensation from Sprint Nextel for the costs of such assistance; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the City Manager is hereby authorized to execute an agreement with Tusa Consulting Services in the amount of $75,000.00 to provide rebanding services and related assistance for the Citys radio communication systems from funds herein appropriated to Account No. 08-1000-107004-B.

Section 2. The revenue in the amount of $75,000.00 is hereby estimated in the following account of the General Fund:

08-1000-100000-476900 FCC Rebanding Project $75,000.00

Section 3. That $75,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the General Fund to the following account:

08-1000-107004-B FCC Rebanding Project $75,000.00

Section 4. That the City Manager is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. 08-1000-107004.

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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 and legality:

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Alan Holtkamp

Assistant City Attorney