Resolution 1495

RESOLUTION NO. 1495

 

A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE IMPROVEMENT OR REIMPROVEMENT OF A MAIN TRAFFICWAY WITHIN THE CITY OF GOODLAND, KANSAS; AND PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE COSTS THEREOF.

 

 

            WHEREAS, K.S.A. 12-687 provides that the governing body of any city shall have the power to improve or reimprove or cause to be improved or reimproved, any main trafficway or trafficway connection designated and established under the provisions of K.S.A. 12-685 et seq. (the “Act”), and such improvement or reimprovement may include grading, regrading, curbing, recurbing, guttering, reguttering, paving, repaving, macadamizing, remacadamizing, constructing, reconstructing, opening, widening, extending, rounding corners, straightening, relocating, building any necessary bridges and approaches thereto, viaducts, overpasses, underpasses, culverts and drainage, trafficway illumination, traffic control devices, pedestrian ways, or other improvements or any two or more of such improvements or reimprovements and the acquisition of right-of-way by purchase or condemnation when necessary for any of such purposes; and

 

            WHEREAS, the Act provides that all costs of improvements or reimprovements authorized thereunder, including acquisition of right-of-way, engineering costs, and all other costs properly attributable to such projects, shall be paid by the city at large and may be funded, among others, by the issuance of general obligation bonds; and

 

WHEREAS, the governing body of the City of Goodland, Kansas (the “City”), has heretofore by Ordinance Nos. 1577 and 1702, designated 16^th Street, between Cattletrail Avenue and North Industry Street, Center Avenue from Toelkes Street to 17^th Street,  Cherry Avenue from 4^th Street to Business 24, and all of West Industrial Street, 10^th Street, 25^th Street, 2^nd Street and 8^th Street, located within the limits of the City, as main trafficways, and designated 4^th Street, between Kansas Avenue and Main Avenue, 14^th Street, between Cattletrail Avenue and Kansas Avenue, and 15^th Street, between Main Avenue and Cherry Avenue, as trafficway connections, as provided by and under the authority of the Act; and

 

            WHEREAS, said governing body hereby finds and determines that it is necessary to improve or reimprove said main trafficway, and to provide for the payment of the costs thereof, all as provided by and under the authority of the Act.

 

            THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF GOODLAND, KANSAS:

 

            Section 1.         Project Authorization.  It is hereby deemed and declared to be necessary to improve or reimprove the main trafficways and trafficway connections hereinafter set forth:

 

Main Trafficway/Connection Name	Location
West Industrial Street	West from North Industry Street
4th Street	Sherman Avenue to Grand Avenue
10th Street	Main Avenue to Broadway Avenue
14th Street	Texas Avenue to Colorado Avenue
15th Street	Cherry Avenue to Main Avenue
16th Street	Cattletrail Avenue to North Industry Street
25th Street	West of Commerce Road
Cherry Avenue	12th Street to 17th Street
Center Avenue	16th Street to 17th Street
Eustis Avenue	4th Street to 8th Street

 

(the “Project”) under the authority of the Act, in accordance with plans and specifications therefor prepared or approved by the City Engineer.

 

            Section 2.         Financing Authority.  The estimated costs of the Project, including construction, engineering fees, acquisition of right-of-way and easements, contingencies and administrative expenses are $1,860,000.  The costs of the Project, interest on interim financing and associated financing costs shall be payable from the proceeds of general obligation bonds of the City issued under authority of the Act (the “Bonds”).

 

Section 3.         Reimbursement.  The Bonds may be issued to reimburse expenditures made on or after the date which is 60 days before the date of this Resolution, pursuant to Treasury Regulation § 1.150-2.

 

            Section 4.         Effective Date.  This Resolution shall take effect and be in full force from and after its adoption by the governing body of the City.

 

 

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            ADOPTED AND APPROVED by the governing body of the City of Goodland, Kansas, on
March 6, 2017.

 

 

 

(Seal)                                                                                                                                                  

Mayor

ATTEST:

 

 

 

                                                           

Clerk