ORDINANCE NO. 051083

Authorizing a $698,000.00 increase in the contingency amount for a contract with Beemer Construction Company, Inc., for additional work in connection with replacement of utilities in the vicinity of 14th and Walnut; and authorizing the City Manager to expend an additional sum not to exceed $698,000.00 for the project.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the City Manager is hereby authorized to increase the contingency for Contract No. 050252 with Beemer Construction Co., Inc. for construction of Water Mains, Storm and Sanitary Sewer in the vicinity of 14th and Walnut, as part of the KC LIVE project, which was approved by Ordinance No. 041297, passed December 6, 2004, from $1,404,115.00 to $2,102,115.00 for additional work in an amount not to exceed $698,000.00. This increase will pay for installation of utilities in the 1300 and 1400 block of Walnut Street and in block 10 of East 14th Street.

Section 2. That the City Manager is hereby authorized to expend an additional sum not to exceed $698,000.00 from funds previously appropriated to Account No. AL-3300-647-232-B for the aforesaid contract contingency increase.

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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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Wanda Gunter

Acting Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Nelson V. Muňoz

Assistant City Attorney