ORDINANCE NO. 981468

Authorizing a $126,840.75 contract with E.B. Cooper Construction, Inc., for reconstructing 60th Street from Cypress Avenue to Elmwood Avenue including sidewalks, curbs, driveway entrances and appurtenances; authorizing expenditure of $2,000.00 for adjustments of water facilities necessitated by the construction; authorizing the Director of Public Works to expend $142,000.00 in funds appropriated herein for the project; and appropriating $317.00 to the Youth Employment Fund.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the work of constructing a street improvement on 60th Street from Cypress Avenue to Elmwood Avenue, consisting of sidewalks, curbs, paving, and other necessary appurtenances, as part of the Public Improvements Tax Year 13 Projects in Council District 5, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, Project No. 1296, 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 E.B. Cooper Construction, Inc., a Missouri corporation, in the amount of $126,840.75, 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 funding in the amount of $2,000.00 for the adjustments of water facilities necessitated by the 60th Street project and included in the contract therefor, will be provided from Water Fund Account No. 99-801-080-7701-T.

Section 4. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $142,000.00 from funds heretofore appropriated to Account No. 99-309-089-6504-T as and for the balance of consideration in the aforesaid contract and engineering, administration and inspection in connection therewith.

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

99-309-089-6504-T Curb & Sidewalk Construction - CD-5 $317.00

Section 6. That the sum of $317.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvement Fund to the following account in the Capital Improvement Fund:

99-309-012-9089-B Transfer to Youth Employment Fund $317.00

Section 7. That the revenue in the following account of the Youth Employment Fund is hereby re-estimated in the following additional amount:

99-244-089-9202 Transfer from Capital Improvement Fund $317.00

Section 8. That the sum of $317.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Youth Employment Fund to the following account in the Youth Employment Fund:

99-244-089-7004-T Quarter Percent for Youth Employment Fund $317.00

Section 9. That the Director of Finance is hereby authorized to transfer $317.00 from the Capital Improvement Fund to the Youth Employment Fund.

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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