ORDINANCE NO. 030794

Authorizing a $3,240,614.95 contract with Radmacher Brothers Excavating Company, Inc., for the work of removing and replacing the existing Saint Louis Viaduct over the Kansas City Terminal Railways; authorizing a $404,543.00 Sixth Amendment to Agreement No. 920770 with TranSystems Corporation that provides construction observation services; estimating revenue in the amount of $2,000,000.00 in the Capital Improvement Fund; reducing an appropriation in the amount of $1,500,000.00 in the Capital Improvement Fund; and appropriating $3,500,000.00 to the St. Louis Viaduct account of the Capital Improvement Fund.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the work of removing and replacing the existing Saint Louis Avenue Viaduct over the Kansas City Terminal Railways, constructing approach roadways, retaining walls, existing retaining wall railing modifications, traffic control and other necessary appurtenances in Kansas City, Missouri, Council District 2, Project No. 5367, Federal Project No. BRM-3396(401), 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 Radmacher Brothers Excavating Company, Inc., a Missouri corporation, in the amount of $3,240,614.95, which contract is hereby approved and confirmed. A copy of the contract is on file in the office of the Director of Public Works and is incorporated herein by reference.

Section 3. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to enter into and execute, on behalf of the Kansas City, a Sixth Amendment to Agreement No. 920770 with TranSystems Corporation in the amount of $404,543.00 to provide construction observation services during the construction contract. The agreement shall be essentially in the form which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

Section 4. That the revenue in the following account of the Capital Improvement Fund is hereby estimated in the following amount:

04-309-089-7860 STP Grant - St. Louis Viaduct $2,000,000.00

Section 5. That the appropriation in the following account of the Capital Improvement Fund is hereby reduced by the following amount:

04-309-089-7141-T N. Agnes Avenue Bridge $1,500,000.00

Section 6. That the sum of $3,500,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvement Fund to the following account in the Capital Improvement Fund:

04-309-089-7216-T St. Louis Viaduct $3,500,000.00

Section 7. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $4,040,219.00 from funds heretofore appropriated to Account No. 04-309-089-7216-T for the aforesaid contracts and for contingencies and engineering herewith.

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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