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AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL CONTRACT FOR TRANSIT SERVICES BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF LEE’S SUMMIT, MISSOURI AND THE KANSAS CITY AREA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY (KCATA) IN THE AMOUNT OF $103,657 AND COMMITMENT OF $330,073 OF FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION SECTION 5307 FORMULA FUNDS TO THE KCATA FOR TRANSIT SERVICE AND CAPITAL EXPENSES. (PWC 1-16-18)
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Issue/Request:
AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL CONTRACT FOR TRANSIT SERVICES BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF LEE’S SUMMIT, MISSOURI AND THE KANSAS CITY AREA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY (KCATA) IN THE AMOUNT OF $103,657 AND COMMITMENT OF $330,073 OF FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION SECTION 5307 FORMULA FUNDS TO THE KCATA FOR TRANSIT SERVICE AND CAPITAL EXPENSES.
Key Issues:
- The City of Lee’s Summit has contracted with the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) since 1999 for a commuter bus service - #152 Lee’s Summit Express - between Lee’s Summit and downtown Kansas City.
- The service provides four morning trips departing from Lee’s Summit to downtown Kansas City, and four afternoon return trips, for those that commute to Kansas City for work.
- The cost to Lee's Summit for the 2018 contract with the KCATA for the #152 Lee’s Summit Express Commuter Service and KCATA administration of OATS operating contract for RideKC Lee's Summit demand response transit service on behalf of the City will be $103,657. The local matching funds will be paid from the Transportation Sales Tax Fund as programmed in the City’s Capital Improvements Plan and approved by City Council as part of the FY2018 budget.
- Lee's Summit will obligate $330,073 of its Federal Transit Administration Funding allocation to the KCATA for eligible operating and capital costs associated with these transit services.
Proposed City Council Motion:
FIRST MOTION: I move for a second reading of AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL CONTRACT F...
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