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File #: 22053    Version: 0 Name: Legal Services Agreements
Type: Resolution Status: 1st. Meeting
File created: 9/12/2025 In control: Budget Committee
On agenda: 10/6/2025 Final action:
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Counselor to execute a Legal Services Agreement with Anne Baggott of Denton's Law Firm at an aggregate cost to the County not to exceed $50,000.00, for services to be performed in 2025.
Sponsors: Charlie Franklin
Attachments: 1. 22053 Signed, 2. RLA, 3. Fiscal Note 25-420 County Counselor Denton's Law.pdf

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

Title

A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Counselor to execute a Legal Services Agreement with Anne Baggott of Denton’s Law Firm at an aggregate cost to the County not to exceed $50,000.00, for services to be performed in 2025.

Intro

RESOLUTION NO. 22053, October 6, 2025

 

INTRODUCED BY Charlie Franklin, County Legislator

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 WHEREAS, the County Counselor recommends that he be authorized to execute a Legal Services Agreement with Anne Baggott of Denton’s Law Firm to provide legal services to the County in certain new and ongoing matters; and,

 

WHEREAS, this Legal Services Agreement is for the furnishing of services related to employment matters, and not to exceed $50,000.00 for services to be performed in 2025; now therefore,

 

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Counselor be and hereby is authorized to execute a Legal Services Agreement with the lawyers and/or law firms identified in this Resolution, for a term ending December 31, 2025, at an aggregate cost to the County not to exceed $50,000.00; and,

 

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of Finance and Purchasing be and hereby is authorized to make all payments, including final payments, on the Agreement and Addendums...Enacted and Approved

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

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

                     

 

______________________________                                            

County Counselor

 

Certificate of Passage

 

                     I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution No. 22053 of October 6, 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                     1101                     56020

ACCOUNT TITLE:                     General Fund

                                                                                    County Counselor

                                                                                    Legal Services

NOT TO EXCEED:                     $50,000.00                     

 

 

Date                                                                                                                                                   Chief Administrative Officer