IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $2,370,375.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2019 Grant Fund and awarding a contract on Bid No. PW 09-2018 for the Rock Island Rail Corridor Shared Use Path - North Segment Project, No. 3221, to Radmacher Brothers Excavation Co., Inc., of Pleasant Hill, MO, at a cost to the County not to exceed $11,067,439.71, and authorizing the Director of Parks + Rec to approve line item adjustments at no additional cost to the County.
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ORDINANCE NO. 5231, June 3, 2019
INTRODUCED BY Tony Miller, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, by Ordinance 4982, dated May 22, 2017, the Legislature did authorize the appropriation of funds in the amount of $12,500,000.00, in acceptance of a $10,000,000.00 grant awarded by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission and $2,500,000.00 within the 2017 Special Road and Bridge Fund related to the Rock Island Rail Corridor Shared Use Path Project; and,
WHEREAS, by Resolution 19659, dated November 20, 2017, the Legislature authorized that a contract on Bid No. PW-07-2017 be awarded for the Rock Island Rail Corridor Shared Use Path - South Segment Project No. 3205 be awarded to Radmacher Brothers Excavation Co., Inc. of Pleasant Hill, at a cost to the County not to exceed $3,439,543.00; and,
WHEREAS, the construction of the South Segment is substantially complete and the trail will be open to the public during a ceremony on June 1, 2019 (National Trails Day); and,
WHEREAS, the City of Kansas City, Missouri, by Ordinance authorized $2,500,000.00 be transferred to the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) for the Rock Island Shared Use Path; and,
WHEREAS the KCATA has transferred $2,370,375.00 to the County for the construction of the North Segment of the Shared Use Path, retaining $129,625.00 by agreement to be used for an economic development plan for the corridor, and
WHEREAS, the Director of Public Works has solic...
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