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    The ordinance authorizes the city manager to negotiate and execute legal services agreements with outside counsel to provide legal advisory services relating to negotiations with the Kansas City Royals about potentially relocating their stadium downtown. It allows the Royals to directly pay the city's legal fees and reduces the general fund by $1,000 to appropriate for outside legal consulting services. The ordinance recognizes an accelerated effective date due to appropriating funds.

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    The ordinance authorizes the city manager to negotiate and execute legal services agreements with outside counsel to provide legal advisory services relating to negotiations with the Kansas City Royals about potentially relocating their stadium downtown. It allows the Royals to directly pay the city's legal fees and reduces the general fund by $1,000 to appropriate for outside legal consulting services. The ordinance recognizes an accelerated effective date due to appropriating funds.

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    The ordinance authorizes the city manager to negotiate and execute legal services agreements with outside counsel to provide legal advisory services relating to negotiations with the Kansas City Royals about potentially relocating their stadium downtown. It allows the Royals to directly pay the city's legal fees and reduces the general fund by $1,000 to appropriate for outside legal consulting services. The ordinance recognizes an accelerated effective date due to appropriating funds.

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    ORDINANCE NO.

    230908

    ..title
    Sponsor: Mayor Quinton Lucas

    Authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute a Legal and Professional Services
    Agreement(s) with outside counsel for the provision of legal and other advisory services relating
    to the City’s good faith negotiations with the Kansas City Royals to stay in Kansas City;
    authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute a third-party payor agreement whereby
    the Royals will directly pay the City’s outside counsel for its legal and advisory services to the
    City; reducing the Contingent Appropriation by $1,000.00 in the General Fund to increase
    outside legal consulting; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

    ..body
    WHEREAS, the Royals seek to relocate the team’s stadium and are considering
    downtown Kansas City as a potential location; and

    WHEREAS, on August 3, 2023, the City Council unanimously adopted Resolution No.
    230656 expressing the Council’s intent for the City to continue good faith negotiations with the
    Royals to stay in Kansas City; and

    WHEREAS, the City and the Royals are engaged in good faith negotiations regarding the
    Royals’ potential stadium relocation; and

    WHEREAS, the Council recognizes both the uniqueness of this issue and the complex
    and specialized nature of the multiple areas of law involved in such negotiations; and

    WHEREAS, the Council recognizes the Law Department has obtained professional
    services from local and national firms in complex matters where sufficient expertise and
    experience is necessary to achieve the best result for the City; NOW, THEREFORE;

    BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

    Section 1. That the City Manager is hereby authorized to negotiate and execute
    agreements with legal counsel to provide legal and other services and to retain external
    professional services related to negotiations with the Royals about a potential stadium relocation
    and related developments.

    Section 2. That the City Manager is hereby authorized to negotiate and execute
    agreements with the Kansas City Royals whereby the Royals will pay fees and expenses charged
    by legal counsel for legal and other professional services related to City negotiations with the
    Royals about a potential stadium relocation and related developments.

    Section 3. That the appropriation in the following account of the General Fund is reduced
    by the following amount:
    24-1000-179990-B Contingent Appropriation $1,000.00

    Section 4. That the sum of $1,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated
    Fund Balance of the General Fund, Fund No. 1000, to the following account:

    24-1000-131506-B Outside Attorney Consulting $1,000.00

    Section 5. That this ordinance, because it appropriates money, is hereby recognized as


    having an accelerated effective date pursuant to Section 503(a)(3)(C) of the Charter.

    Section 6. That pursuant to Section 3-35(b)(5) and Section 3-437(b), Code of


    Ordinances, the Council hereby determines that it is in the best interests of the City to waive the
    contract solicitation and Article IV, Chapter 3 requirements otherwise set out in the Code of
    Ordinances as to the legal services agreements(s) and agreements related to the legal services
    agreement(s); and does hereby waive those requirements.

    ..end
    ______________________________________________________

    I hereby certify that there is a balance, otherwise unencumbered, to the credit of the
    appropriation to which the foregoing expenditure is to be charged, and a cash balance, otherwise
    unencumbered, in the treasury, to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made, each
    sufficient to meet the obligation hereby incurred.

    ______________________________
    Tammy L. Queen
    Director of Finance

    Approved as to form:

    _______________________
    Nelson V. Muñoz
    Deputy City Attorney

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