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AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THE SECOND AMENDMENT TO COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FOR RECIPROCAL SEWER SERVICE BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF LEE’S SUMMIT, MISSOURI AND THE CITY OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI FOR THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE BOGGS HOLLOW SEWER INTERCEPTOR AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE THE SAME BY AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF LEE’S SUMMIT. (PWC 1/30/17)
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Key Issues:
The cities of Lee's Summit, Missouri and Kansas City, Missouri have had on going discussions about the ownership and access rights for use of the Boggs Hollow Interceptor for more than forty years.
This discusssion revolves around capacity concerns for both Cities if the service area for the line is completely built out.
The existing line is vitrified clay pipe, was constructed in 1972 and the line was sized to serve a lower density of development than what the area is seeing.
In 2004, an agreement was reached in which Kansas City was going to build their own line and Lee's Summit was going to allow the existing Kansas City connections to remain. The line contemplated in the 2004 agreement was never constructed due to its' cost.
Kansas City approached Lee's Summit with a new proposed approach to this problem in which Kansas City would take over the portion of the line in Kansas City and Lee's Summit would construct a meter structure at the City Limit line.
In this new, proposed agreement, the responsibility of the line in the Kansas City corporate limits becomes Kansas City's for maintenance and operations.
Lee's Summit's Flows are not limited
Lee's Summit still pays the Little Blue Valley Sewer District Rate for its flows.
Lee's Summit is only responsible for the portion of the the line which is inside the City of Lee's Summit corporate boundary.
This works for both cities because Lee's Summit's costs to install the meter structure is less than the cost of the necessary line improvements for the interceptor and Kansas City's costs are less to improve the line they are ta...
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