ORDINANCE NO. 030472

Authorizing a $138,152.00 agreement with Highwoods Realty Limited Partnership relating to the installation, operation and maintenance of special decorative streetlight poles on public streets within the Plaza; estimating revenue and appropriating the sum of $279,317.00 to the Streetlight System Expansion account of the GO Bonds Streetlight SR2002A Fund; and recognizing an emergency.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to enter into and execute, on behalf of the City, a $138,152.00 agreement with Highwoods Realty Limited Partnership relating to the installation, operation, and maintenance of special decorative streetlight poles on public streets within the Plaza, Council District 4, Project No. 7524. The agreement shall be essentially in the form which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

Section 2. That the revenue in the following account of the GO Bonds Streetlight SR2002A Fund is hereby estimated in the following amount:

03-337-089-8058 Contribution for Streetlights $279,317.00

Section 3. That the sum of $279,317.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the GO Bonds Streetlight SR2002A Fund to the following account in the GO Bonds Streetlight SR2002A Fund:

03-337-089-7787-T Streetlight System Expansion $279,317.00

Section 4. That this ordinance, making an appropriation for the current expense of City government, is recognized as an emergency measure within the provisions of Article II, Section 15 of the Charter of Kansas City 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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Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Assistant City Attorney