File #: 21592    Version: 0 Name: Co Counselor Legal Services
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 3/21/2024 In control: Finance and Audit Committee
On agenda: 3/25/2024 Final action: 4/1/2024
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Counselor to execute a Legal Services Agreement and Addendums to existing Legal Services Agreements with certain lawyers and law firms at an aggregate cost to the County not to exceed $92,000.00, for services to be performed in 2024.
Sponsors: Megan L. Marshall
Indexes: ADDENDUM, COUNTY COUNSELOR, LEGAL SERVICES AGREEMENT
Attachments: 1. 21592bu, 2. 21592adopted.pdf, 3. 21592 Husch Blackwell Legal Services

 

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

Title

A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Counselor to execute a Legal Services Agreement and Addendums to existing Legal Services Agreements with certain lawyers and law firms at an aggregate cost to the County not to exceed $92,000.00, for services to be performed in 2024.

 

Intro

RESOLUTION NO. 21592, March 25, 2024

 

INTRODUCED BY Megan L. Marshall, County Legislator

 

Body

 WHEREAS, the County Counselor recommends that he be authorized to execute a Legal Services Agreement and Addendums to existing Legal Services Agreements with certain lawyers and law firms to provide legal services to the County in certain new and ongoing matters; and,

 

WHEREAS, the lawyers and law firm for which Agreements and Addendums are recommended, the services to be provided, and not to exceed amounts for services to be performed in 2024, are as follows:

 

Lawyer/Law Firm                                                                                    Matter                                                                                                         Amount

 

William G. Snyder                                                                                    Assessment, Collection, and

Independence, MO                                                                                    Recorder of Deeds Issues                                          $42,000.00

 

Julianne Story

Husch Blackwell                                                                                    Employment Expertise                                             $50,000.00

Kansas City(Jackson County), MO                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

 

Total                                           $92,000.00

 

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 and Addendums to the existing Legal Services Agreements with the lawyers and/or law firms identified in this Resolution, for a term ending December 31, 2024, at an aggregate cost to the County not to exceed $92,000.00; and,

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of the Department 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. 21592 of March 25, 2024, was duly passed on April 1, 2024 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:

 

 

Yeas _______5__________                                          Nays ______4_______

 

 

Abstaining _____0______                                          Absent _____0_______

 

 

 

__________________________                     ______________________________

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 Counselors

                                                                                    Legal Services

NOT TO EXCEED:                                          $92,000.00

 

 

 

______________________                                                               ________________________________

Date                      Chief Administrative Officer