ORDINANCE NO. 190443

Estimating revenue and appropriating $1,350,000.00 in Fund 3439, the 2020A Taxable Special Obligation Bond Fund; designating requisitioning authority; authorizing an approximately $594,000.00 professional services contract with CarrBaierCrandall (CBC) related to the programming, design and reconstruction of the Auditorium Plaza Garage and Barney Allis Plaza Event Space; authorizing the Director of General Services to execute amendments to the contract with CBC up to a total contract amount not to exceed $1,300,000.00; authorizing the Director of Finance to close project accounts; declaring the intent of the City to reimburse itself from the bond proceeds for certain expenditures; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

WHEREAS, the City Council recognizes and acknowledges the need to reconstruct Auditorium Plaza Garage and directed the City Manager to incorporate costs to design and build a new parking and event facility on this site into the 2018-2019 City Budget through passage of Resolution No. 180768; and

WHEREAS, Auditorium Plaza Garage provides proximate, accessible parking for the Kansas City Convention Center and surrounding City facilities; and

WHEREAS, it is necessary that the City provide parking facilities in support of the Convention Center while Barney Allis Plaza Event Space is reconstructed; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the revenue in the following account of Fund No. 3439, the 2020A Taxable Special Obligation Bond Fund, is hereby estimated in the following amount:

AL-3439-120000-590000 Proceeds from Sale of Bonds $1,350,000.00

Section 2. That the sum of $1,350,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of Fund No. 3439, the 2020A Taxable Special Obligation Bond Fund, to the following accounts:

AL-3439-078027-B- 07P20002 Owners Representative $1,300,000.00

AL-3439-129620-B Cost of Issuance 50,000.00 TOTAL $1,350,000.00

Section 3. The Director of General Services is hereby designated as requisitioning authority for Account No. AL-3439-078027-B and the Director of Finance is designated as the requisitioning authority for Account No. AL-3439-129620-B.

Section 4. That the Director of General Services is authorized to execute a Professional Services Contract with CarrBaierCrandall (CBC) in the amount of $594,040.00 for providing services as the Owner’s Representative to supplement and augment the cities capabilities in the programming, design and reconstruction of the Auditorium Plaza Garage and the Barney Allis Plaza Event Space. A copy of the design contract is on file in the General Services Department.

Section 5. That the Director of General Services is authorized to amend, without further City Council approval, the Professional Services Contract with CBC, approved in Section 4, in an amount or amounts wherein the total contract shall not exceed $1,300,000.00.

Section 6. The Director of Finance is hereby authorized to close project accounts, encumbrances, and retainage related to the accounts in Section 2, and return the unspent portion to the Fund Balance from which it came upon the earliest of: (i) the Project’s completion; (ii) final maturity of financing; or (iii) five years after issuance.

Section 7. That the City hereby declares its official intent to reimburse itself for certain expenditures made within sixty (60) days prior to or on and after the date of this ordinance with respect to the appropriations listed in Section 2 (collectively the “Appropriations”) with the proceeds of bonds expected to be issued by the City. The maximum principal amount of bonds expected to be issued for the Appropriations shall not exceed $1,350,000.00. This constitutes a declaration of official intent under Treasury Regulation Section 1.150-2.

Section 8. That this ordinance is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Section 503(a)(3)(C) of the City Charter in that it appropriates money, 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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Randall J. Landes

Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Katherine Chandler

Assistant City Attorney