ORDINANCE NO. 020289

Authorizing a $249,819.00 agreement with Bucher, Willis & Ratliff Corporation for engineering services in connection with the 2002 Biennal Bridge Inspections and authorizing the Director of Public Works to expend $249,819.00 for the project.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to enter into and execute, on behalf of the City, a $249,819.00 agreement with Bucher, Willis & Ratliff Corporation, essentially in the form attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, relating to engineering services in connection with the 2002 Biennal Bridge Inspections, in Kansas City, Missouri, Project No. 5472, to be completed in two phases:

Phase I: Engineering Inspection Services

Phase II: Optional Engineering Inspection Services

Section 2. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $249,819.00 from funds previously appropriated to Account No. 02-100-089-7702-T for the aforesaid agreement.

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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