File #: 5502    Version: 0 Name: emergency cooling of Downtown courthouse
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 4/26/2021 In control: Budget Committee
On agenda: 4/26/2021 Final action: 5/3/2021
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $1,594,795.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2021 General Fund to provide for emergency cooling of the Downtown Courthouse associated with cooling outages occasioned by ongoing chilled water system repairs.
Sponsors: Dan Tarwater III
Indexes: CHILLED WATER SYSTEM, DOWNTOWN JACKSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE, GENERAL FUND
Attachments: 1. 5502bu.pdf, 2. 5502adopted.pdf
Related files: 20648, 5507

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

Title

AN ORDINANCE appropriating $1,594,795.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2021 General Fund to provide for emergency cooling of the Downtown Courthouse associated with cooling outages occasioned by ongoing chilled water system repairs.

 

Intro

ORDINANCE NO. 5502, April 26, 2021

 

INTRODUCED BY Dan Tarwater III, County Legislator

 

 

Body

 WHEREAS, by Resolution 20648, dated April 12, 2021, the Legislature authorized a transfer of funds for much needed repairs to the chilled water system in the Downtown Courthouse; and

 

WHEREAS, it is critical for day to day operations, trials, and jurors at the Downtown Courthouse to have an alternative air cooling system in place while the estimated eight weeks of repairs are completed; and;

 

WHEREAS, it has been determined the most successful and cost-effective method is to make use of temporary, portable air-cooled chillers and existing air handlers and ducts to air condition the third through eighth floors; and,

 

WHEREAS, all labor and equipment for the chillers necessary to remedy this situation immediately are available from an existing County term and supply vendor; and,

 

WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary to place the needed funds in the proper spending account; now therefore.

 

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation be and hereby is made:

 

DEPARTMENT/DIVISION

CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION

FROM

TO

 

 

 

 

General Fund

 

 

 

001-9999

32810-  Undesignated Fund Balance

$1,594,795

 

Fac. Mgmt Kansas City 001-1204

 56510- Maint. & Repair- Buildings

 

$1,594,795

 

 

 

Enacted and Approved

Effective Date: This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its signature by the County Executive.

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

 

 

 

______________________________                     ________________________________

Chief Deputy County Counselor                      County Counselor

 

                     I hereby certify that the attached ordinance, Ordinance No. 5502 introduced on April 26, 2021, was duly passed on May 3, 2021 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:

 

 

Yeas _______9________                     Nays ______0________

 

 

Abstaining _____0______                     Absent _____0________

 

 

 

 

 

This Ordinance is hereby transmitted to the County Executive for his signature.

 

 

 

____________________                                                                                    ________________________________

Date                                                                                                                                                   Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature

 

I hereby approve the attached Ordinance No. 5502.

 

 

 

____________________                                                                                    ________________________________

Date                                                                                                                                                   Frank White, Jr., County Executive

 

 

Fiscal Note

Funds sufficient for this transfer are available from the source indicated below.

 

ACCOUNT NUMBER:                     001                     9999                     32810

ACCOUNT TITLE:                     General Fund

                                                                                    Undesignated Fund Balance

NOT TO EXCEED:                     $1,594,795.00

 

 

 

_________________                     ________________________________

Date                     Chief Administrative Officer