ORDINANCE NO. 970396

Authorizing a $22,990.44 increase in the authorized expenditure on Contract No. 950409 with Southwestern Bell Telephone Company for the relocation of their facilities on N.W. 68th Street from U.S. 169 to N. Hickory, Project No. 1220, in Council District 2.

WHEREAS, by Ordinance No. 950753, passed June 8, 1995, the Council authorized a contract with Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in the estimated amount of $178,377.00 with an authorized expenditure of $178,337.00; and

WHEREAS, during the course of the relocation, the replacement cabinet cost more than estimated to buy and install; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to expend the additional sum of $22,990.44 from funds previously appropriated in Account No. 94-399-089-7273-T as and for the balance of consideration in the aforesaid Contract No. 950409.

_____________________________________________

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.

___________________________________

Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

___________________________________

Assistant City Attorney