Sponsor: City Manager Authorizing the Director of Neighborhood Services to establish the Water and Sewer Service Line Assistance Program (“Program”) in the amount of $100,000.00 to support Kansas City small businesses and low-income residential property owners with private water service and sewer lateral line repairs; reducing appropriations in the Contingent Appropriation of the General Fund by $100,000.00; appropriating that amount in the General Fund for the purpose of the Water and Sewer Service Line Assistance Program; authorizing the Director of Neighborhood Services to establish guidelines for the eligibility, distribution and administration of the Program which will include the provision that the expenditure of repairs to private water service and/or sewer lateral lines at any one property shall not exceed $8,500.00; authorizing the Director of Public Works to exempt street resurfacing requirements as promulgated in the City’s Street Restoration policy (“SR-1”), authorized pursuant to the Code of Ordinances Section 64-125, “Standards for backfilling excavations and resurfacing,” for private water service and sewer lateral line repair projects approved pursuant to the Program; and directing the City Manager to review options for future funding of the Program to include other revenues of the water and sewer systems not generated from charges for water and sewer service.

Ordinance Held Introduced July 31, 2024

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