ORDINANCE NO. 001418

Authorizing the purchase of property located in the Birmingham Bottoms for the Birmingham Treatment Plant Site Expansion; authorizing acceptance of the deed to said property; and authorizing expenditure of $177,800.00.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the Director of Water Services is hereby authorized to purchase property in the area of the Birmingham Bottoms in Kansas City, Clay County, for the Birmingham Wastewater Treatment Plant Site expansion. The legal description of the property to be purchased is as follows:

All that part of the East of Section 23, Township 50, Range 32 West in Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Northeast corner of said Quarter Section; thence North 89 degrees 37 minutes West 1566.92 feet along the North line of said Quarter Section to an iron rod; thence South 1 degree 33 minutes West 2323.7 feet to the point of intersection with the North boundary line of land acquired by the United States in the Case of United States of America, Petitioner vs. Certain Lands in the County of Clay, et al, Defendants, in the District Court of the Unites States for the Western Division of the Western District of Missouri, Civil Docket No. 314; thence in a Southeasterly direction along said North boundary line to its intersection with the East line of said Quarter Section; thence North along the East line of said Quarter Section to the point of beginning; except the East 30 feet thereof conveyed in Book 359, Page 579.

Section 2. That the Director of Water Services is further authorized to exercise the Option to Purchase, accept the deed and expend up to the sum of $177,800.00 from funds previously appropriated to Account No. 01-811-080-7726-T Sewer Construction for the purchase of the above-referenced property.

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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