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File #: 6071    Version: 1 Name: irrigation system for Fred Arbanas Golf and Frank White Complex
Type: Ordinance Status: 1st. Perfection
File created: 2/25/2026 In control: Public Works Committee
On agenda: 3/16/2026 Final action:
Title: AN ORDINANCE transferring and appropriating $4,164,475.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2026 Park Enterprise Fund and awarding a contract for the replacement of the irrigation system at the Fred Arbanas Golf Course and the Frank White, Jr. Sports Complex to Verde Sports Construction, LLC., of Langley, WA, under the terms and conditions of Invitation to Bid 25-047, at a cost to the County not to exceed $4,164,475.00.
Sponsors: Charlie Franklin
Attachments: 1. 6071 Signed, 2. RLA, 3. Fiscal Note 26-105 Parks + Rec Irrigation, 4. Recommendation Memo - Irrigation Replacement, 5. 2026ComplianceCert2026 Verde, 6. 2026 Affidait Verde, 7. 25-047 Irrigation System Installation for the Fred Arbanas Golf Course and the Frank White, Jr. Sports Complex - Bonfire Executive Summary, 8. 10-VSC - Cost Proposal

 

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

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AN ORDINANCE transferring and appropriating $4,164,475.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2026 Park Enterprise Fund and awarding a contract for the replacement of the irrigation system at the Fred Arbanas Golf Course and the Frank White, Jr. Sports Complex to Verde Sports Construction, LLC., of Langley, WA, under the terms and conditions of Invitation to Bid 25-047, at a cost to the County not to exceed $4,164,475.00.

 

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ORDINANCE NO. 6071, March 16, 2026

 

INTRODUCED BY Charlie Franklin, County Legislator

 

 

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 WHEREAS, the Parks + Rec Department has a need to install a new irrigation system at the Fred Arbanas Golf Course and the Frank White, Jr. Sports Complex as the existing plumbing is now forty years old and showing significant signs of deterioration; and,

 

WHEREAS, the scope of the project includes the design and installation of a new irrigation system on the championship course, par 3 course, driving range, putting green, entry and clubhouse areas within the Fred Arbanas Golf Course and the Frank White, Jr. Sports Complex; and,

 

WHEREAS, the Interim Director of Finance and Purchasing solicited bids from qualified respondents for the furnishing of all drawings, labor, materials, equipment, and other services necessary to install such irrigation systems on Invitation to Bid No. 25-047; and,

 

 

 

 

WHEREAS, a total of five (5) responses were received and evaluated from the following:

Verde Sports Construction Langley, WA

Mid-America Golf and Landscape Lee’s Summit, MO (Jackson County)

Viridity Grandview, MO (Jackson County)

Commercial Irrigation & Turf, Inc Peoria, IL 

Eyedeal Lawn Care Solutions, LLC Olathe, KS

 

 

WHEREAS, a transfer and appropriation are necessary to place the funds in the proper spending account; now therefore,

 

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation from the undesignated fund balance of the 2026 Park Enterprise  Fund be and hereby is made:

 

DEPARTMENT/DIVISION

CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION

FROM

TO

Park Enterprise Fund

 

 

 

300-9999

32810- Undesignated Fund Balance

$4,164,475

 

300-1608 Parks - Construction Services 

58060- Other Improvements

 

$4,164,475

 

 

and,

 

 

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the Finance Department is hereby authorized to make any transfers and appropriations  necessary to give effect to the intent of this Ordinance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enacted and Approved

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

 

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

 

 

 

_______________________________                      

County Counselor

 

 

                     I hereby certify that the attached ordinance, Ordinance No. 6071 introduced on March 16, 2026, was duly passed on _____________________________, 2026 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:

 

 

Yeas _________________                                          Nays _____________

 

 

Abstaining _____________                                          Absent ____________

 

 

 

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. 6071.

 

 

 

_______________________                                                               _______________________________

Date                                                                                                                                                   Phil LeVota, County Executive

 

 

 

 

Fiscal Note

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

 

ACCOUNT NUMBER:                     300                     9999                     32810

ACCOUNT TITLE:                                          Park Enterprise Fund

                                                                                    Undesignated Fund Balance 

NOT TO EXCEED:                                          $4,164,475.00

 

 

 

 

There is a balance otherwise unencumbered to the credit of the appropriation to which the expenditure is chargeable and there is a cash balance otherwise unencumbered in the treasury to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made each sufficient to provide for the obligation herein authorized. Funds for future years are subject to appropriation in the County’s then current annual budget.

 

ACCOUNT NUMBER                     300                     1608                     58060

ACCOUNT TITLE                                          Park Enterprise Fund

                                                                                    Parks-Construction Services

                                                                                    Other Improvements

NOT TO EXCEED                                          $4,164,475.00

 

 

 

 

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Date                                                                                                                                                   County Administration