File #: 5607    Version: 0 Name: new County Administration building
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 3/10/2022 In control: Budget Committee
On agenda: 3/14/2022 Final action: 4/4/2022
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $9,050,000.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2022 County Improvement Fund and authorizing the County Executive to execute a commercial real estate sales contract for the purchase of a certain property for use as the new County Administration building at an actual cost to the County in the amount of $9,000,000.00.
Sponsors: Charlie Franklin, Theresa Cass Galvin
Indexes: COUNTY IMPROVEMENT FUND, REAL ESTATE, UNDESIGNATED FUND BALANCE
Attachments: 1. 5607bu.pdf, 2. 5607 1300 Washington.pdf, 3. 5607 Perfection Failed.pdf, 4. 5607adopted.pdf, 5. 5607 Purchase and Sale Agreement DST Realty Inc.pdf
Related files: 5767, 5684, 21032, 21519, 21641

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

Title

AN ORDINANCE appropriating $9,050,000.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2022 County Improvement Fund and authorizing the County Executive to execute a commercial real estate sales contract for the purchase of a certain property for use as the new County Administration building at an actual cost to the County in the amount of $9,000,000.00.

 

Intro

ORDINANCE NO. 5607, March 14, 2022

 

INTRODUCED BY Charlie Franklin and Theresa Cass Galvin, County Legislators

 

 

Body

 WHEREAS, in 2021 the Administration conducted a search for a suitable facility in downtown Kansas City to serve as a new County Administration building; and,

 

WHEREAS, the acquisition of a County Administration building would allow for County judicial and law enforcement functions to be consolidated from several County-owned and leased spaces into the downtown courthouse; and,

 

WHEREAS, a suitable building has been identified and a purchase and sale agreement for the identified building has been drafted and agreed to by the seller and the County Administration, subject to Legislative approval, at an actual cost to the County in the amount of $9,000,000.00; and,

 

WHEREAS, an appropriation is needed to place the funds required for the building purchase and estimated closing costs 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 2022 County Improvement Fund be and hereby is made:

 

DEPARTMENT/DIVISION

CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION

FROM

TO

County Improvement Fund

 

 

 

013-9999

32810- Undesignated Fund Balance

$9,050,000

 

Finance

 

 

 

013-1404

58020- Buildings & Improvements

 

$9,050,000

 

and,

 

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the County Executive and other County officials be and hereby are authorized to execute an appropriate real estate sales contract and any other documents necessary to give effect to the intent of this Ordinance; and,

 

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the Director of Finance and Purchasing be and hereby is authorized to make all payments, including final payment, on the contract, to include reasonable closing costs.

 

 

 

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. 5607 introduced on March 14, 2022, failed on March 21, 2022 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:

 

 

Yeas ______1_________                     Nays ______6________

 

 

Abstaining _____0______                     Absent ____2_________

 

 

 

Reconsidered and Perfected on March 28, 2022.

Adopted on April 4, 2022 - 6 YES   3 NO

 

 

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. 5607.

 

 

 

____________________                                                                                    ________________________________

Date                                                                                                                                                   Frank White, Jr., County Executive

 

 

 

Fiscal Note

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

 

ACCOUNT NUMBER:                     013                     9999                     32810

ACCOUNT TITLE:                                          County Improvement Fund

                                                                                    Undesignated Fund Balance

NOT TO EXCEED:                                          $9,050,000.00

 

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.

 

ACCOUNT NUMBER:                     013                     1404                     58020

ACCOUNT TITLE:                     County Improvement Fund

                                                                                    Finance

                                                                                    Buildings & Improvements

NOT TO EXCEED:                     $9,050,000.00

 

 

 

______________________                                          ________________________________

Date                                                                                                                              Chief Administrative Officer