ORDINANCE NO. 991448

 

Estimating revenue in the amount of $2,700,000.00 in the Local Use Tax-Current Year account and reappropriating $225,000.00 in the Equipment Lease Capital Acquisition Fund, and authorizing the expenditure of $4,006,499.00 of previously appropriated funds for upgrades to the Citys public safety radio system; authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract with the Private Radio Systems Division of Ericsson, Inc., for Phase 2 upgrades to the Citys public safety radio system, including the construction of two new towers; authorizing the expenditure of not more than $6,931,499.00; and recognizing an emergency.

 

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1. That the revenue in the following account of the Local Use Tax Fund is hereby estimated in the following additional amount:

 

00-210-012-5115 Local Use Tax-Current Year $2,700,000.00

 

Section 2. That the sum of $2,700,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Local Use Tax Fund, to the following account in the Local Use Tax Fund:

 

00-210-010-7001T Communications Equipment $2,700,000.00

 

Section 3. That the appropriation in the following account of the Equipment Lease Capital Acquisition Fund in hereby reduced by the following amount:

 

99-323-023-7015T Vehicular Location System $ 225,000.00

 

Section 4. That the sum of $225,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Equipment Lease Capital Acquisition Fund to the following account in the Equipment Lease Capital Acquisition Fund:

 

00-323-010-7003T Radio Equipment $ 225,000.00

 

Section 5. That the City Manager is authorized to enter in a contract in substantially the form as shown in Exhibit 1 to this ordinance with the Private Radio Systems Division of Ericsson, Inc., for Phase 2 upgrades to the Citys public safety radio system.

 

Section 6. That the City Manager is authorized to expend an amount not to exceed $6,931,499.00 from funds appropriated in this ordinance and from previously appropriated funds in the following accounts:

 

00-210-010-7001T Communications Equipment $2,700,000.00

00-100-010-7002T Maintenance and Enhancements $ 700,000.00

99-323-010-7001T Communications Equipment $ 496,985.00

00-209-010-7001T Communications Equipment $ 700,000.00

99-371-010-7001T Communications Equipment $ 281,396.00

99-375-010-7001T Communications Equipment $1,828,118.00

00-323-010-7003T Radio Equipment $ 225,000.00

$6,931,499.00

 

Section 7. That the City Manager is hereby designated as the requisitioning authority for Account Nos. 00-210-010-7001T and 00-323-010-7003T.

 

Section 8. That this ordinance is recognized as an emergency within the terms of City Charter Section 15(a)(3)(C) because it appropriates money and will be effective immediately following approval by the mayor, or five days after passage if no action is taken by the mayor to approve or veto the ordinance.

 

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I hereby certify that there is are balances, otherwise unencumbered, to the credit of the appropriations to which the foregoing expenditures are to be charged, and a cash balance, otherwise unencumbered, in the treasury, to the credit of the funds from which payment is to be made, each sufficient to meet the obligations hereby incurred.

 

 

 

 

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Director of Finance

 

Approved as to form and legality:

 

 

 

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Assistant City Attorney