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File #: 21995    Version: 0 Name: communications and policy consulting services
Type: Resolution Status: Pre Meeting
File created: 8/4/2025 In control: Budget Committee
On agenda: 8/18/2025 Final action:
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the Chairman of the Legislature to execute a Consulting Agreement with Heartland Communications, LLC, of Kansas City, MO, to provide communication and policy services to the Legislature, at a cost not to exceed $25,000.00
Sponsors: Charlie Franklin
Attachments: 1. 21995 Signed, 2. RLA, 3. Fiscal Note - 25-337 Legislative consulting, 4. Heartland Communications Proposal August 2025

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

Title

A RESOLUTION authorizing the Chairman of the Legislature to execute a Consulting Agreement with Heartland Communications, LLC, of Kansas City, MO, to provide communication and policy services to the Legislature, at a cost not to exceed $25,000.00

 

Intro

RESOLUTION NO. 21995, August 18, 2025

 

INTRODUCED BY Charlie Franklin, County Legislator

 

 

Body

 WHEREAS, the Legislature has a continuing need for a consultant to assess policy and communication services; and,

 

WHEREAS, this contract will help to provide services through December 31, 2025; now therefore,

 

BE IT RESOLVED that the Chairman of the Legislature be and hereby is authorized to execute a Consulting Agreement with Heartland Communications of Kansas City, MO in the form to be approved by the County Counselor; and,

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of Finance and Purchasing is authorized to make all payments, including final payment on the contract and any extensions thereto, to the extent that sufficient appropriations to the using spending agency are contained in the then current Jackson County budget.

 

Enacted and Approved

Effective Date: This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

 

 

 

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County Counselor

 

Certificate of Passage

 

                     I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution No. 21995 of August 18, 2025, was duly passed on ______________________, 2025 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:

 

 

                     Yeas _________________                                          Nays ______________

 

 

Abstaining _____________                     Absent ____________

 

 

 

_________________                                                                                    ________________________________

Date                                                                                                                                                   Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature

 

 

 

Fiscal Note

There is a balance otherwise unencumbered to the credit of the appropriation to which the expenditure is chargeable and there is a cash balance otherwise unencumbered in the treasury to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made each sufficient to provide for the obligation herein authorized.

 

ACCOUNT NUMBER                     001                     0112                     56790

                                                                                    General Fund

ACCOUNT TITLE:                                          Legislature As A Whole 

                                                                                    Other Contractual Services

NOT TO EXCEED:                                          $25,000.00

 

 

 

________________________                                                               _____________________________

Date                                                                                                                                                   Chief Administrative Officer