File #: 19175    Version: 0 Name: Inmate Telephone Service Agreement (Second Amendment)
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 6/2/2016 In control: Justice and Law Enforcement Committee
On agenda: 6/6/2016 Final action: 6/13/2016
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the Chief Financial Officer to execute a Second Amendment to the Inmate Telephone Service Agreement with CenturyLink Public Communications, Inc., for a commission payable to the County.
Sponsors: Alfred Jordan
Indexes: INMATE PAY TELEPHONE SERVICES
Attachments: 1. 19175bu.pdf, 2. 19175adopted.pdf, 3. 19175-SCNDAMEN-CENTRLNK.pdf
Related files: 17724

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

 

Title

A RESOLUTION authorizing the Chief Financial Officer to execute a Second Amendment to the Inmate Telephone Service Agreement with CenturyLink Public Communications, Inc., for a commission payable to the County.

 

 

Intro

RESOLUTION NO. 19175, June 6, 2016

 

INTRODUCED BY Alfred Jordan, County Legislator

 

 

Body

 WHEREAS, by Resolution 17724, dated November 7, 2011, the Legislature authorized the Director of Finance and Purchasing to execute a thirty-six month term and supply contract with two twelve-month options to extend with CenturyLink Public Communications, Inc., for the furnishing of inmate telephone service, for a commission payable to the County; and,

 

WHEREAS, this agreement was amended May 1, 2012, pursuant to the First Amendment to the Agreement; and,

 

WHEREAS, on October 22, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued an order effective June 20, 2016, mandating changes to the rate structures for inmate pay telephone services; and,

 

WHEREAS, an Amendment to the Agreement with CenturyLink is required to comply with the new FCC guidelines related to inmate telephone service; and,

 

WHEREAS, execution of this Second Amendment to the Agreement is in the best interests of the health, welfare, and safety of the citizens of the County; now therefore,

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the Chief Financial Officer be, and hereby is, authorized to execute the attached Second Amendment to the Inmate Telephone Service Agreement with CenturyLink Public Communications, Inc. 

 

Enacted and Approved

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

 

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

 

 

___________________________                                            ______________________________

Chief Deputy County Counselor                                                               County Counselor

 

Certificate of Passage

 

                     I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution No. 19175 of June 6, 2016, was duly passed on June 13, 2016 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:

 

                     Yeas _______9__________                                          Nays _____0________

 

 

                     Abstaining _____0________                                          Absent ____0________

 

 

 

 

 

______________________                                                                 ______________________________

Date                                                                                                                                                    Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature