ORDINANCE NO. 900521

Authorizing a contract in the amount of $448,552.50 with R.A. Knapp Construction, Inc. for constructing a storm drainage improvement in the vicinity of N. Highland Avenue from approximately N.E. 50th to N.E. 51st and appropriating $195,267.00 from the Capital Improvements Fund to the Project Account.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the work of constructing a phased storm drainage improvement in the vicinity of N. Highland Avenue from approximately N.E. 50th Street to N.E. 51st Street in three phases, all in Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri in Council District 1, Project No. 3213, State Storm Water Grant No. KCS-420-90, 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 R.A. Knapp Construction, Inc., a Missouri corporation, in the amount of $448,552.50, which contract is hereby approved and confirmed. A copy of the said contract is on file in the office of the Director of Public Works and is incorporated herein by reference.

Section 3. That the revenues in the following account of the Capital Improvements Fund are hereby reestimated in the following additional amount:

9-60629 Council District One Storm Sewer $195,267.00 Improvements - State Share Year 7

Section 4. That the sum of $195,267.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Fund Account No. 9-801, to the following account in the Capital Improvements Fund:

9-40511T Storm Sewer Construction $195,267.00 Council District One

Section 5. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to expend the said $195,267.00 plus the sum of $390,533.00 from funds heretofore appropriated to Account No. 9-40511-T, as and for consideration in the aforesaid contract and for contingencies and engineering associated therewith.

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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