File #: 18696    Version: 0 Name: Consolidated Communications (SureWest) Agreement
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 12/15/2014 In control: County Legislature
On agenda: 12/15/2014 Final action: 12/15/2014
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing an increase to the Agreement with Consolidated Communications (formerly SureWest) of Lenexa, KS, for use County-wide at an increased cost to the County for 2014 not to exceed $7,449.00.
Sponsors: Theresa Garza Ruiz
Indexes: CONSOLIDATED COMMUNICATIONS
Attachments: 1. 18696adopt.pdf, 2. 18696bu.pdf
Related files: 18673, 18141, 17938
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
 
 
Title
A RESOLUTION authorizing an increase to the Agreement with Consolidated Communications (formerly SureWest) of Lenexa, KS, for use County-wide at an increased cost to the County for 2014 not to exceed $7,449.00.
 
 
Intro
RESOLUTION NO. 18696, December 15, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Theresa Garza Ruiz, County Legislator
 
 
Body
WHEREAS, by Resolution 17938, dated July 2, 2012, the Legislature did award a three-year contract pursuant to Request for Proposal No. 53-12 for the furnishing of wide-area network services for use countywide to Consolidated Communications (formerly SureWest) of Lenexa, KS, as a fixed price agreement, at an annual cost to the County not to exceed $161,280.00 and at a three-year cost not to exceed $483,840.00; and,
 
WHEREAS, by Resolution 18141, date April 8, 2013, the Legislature did authorize a first addendum to the agreement with Consolidated Communications for the furnishing of a circuit to connect voice and data communications at the Historic Truman Courthouse; and,
 
WHEREAS, by Resolution 18673, dated November 24, 2014, the Legislature did authorize a second addendum to the agreement for the furnishing of a circuit to connect voice and data communications at the Sheriff's Headquarters; and,
 
WHEREAS, it has now been determined that the agreement with Consolidated Communications should be increased because of additional data lines added to various County locations, including the My Arts building in Independence, Frank White Complex in Lee's Summit, and the 140th and Holmes Sports Complex in Kansas City, and communication fees and taxes that the County is not exempt from paying; and,
 
WHEREAS, funds to cover the cost for this increase were included in the 2014 budget with an additional $166,830.00 subject to appropriation in the 2015 budget; and,
 
WHEREAS, the Director of Finance and Purchasing recommends this increase to the agreement with Consolidated Communications; now therefore,
 
BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the Director of Finance and Purchasing be and hereby is authorized to increase the contract with Consolidated Communications of Lenexa, KS, in the amounts indicated; and,
 
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of Finance and Purchasing be and hereby is authorized to make all payments, including final payment, on the agreement, and addenda thereto.
 
 
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. 18696 of December 15, 2014, was duly passed on December 15, 2014 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
 
 
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      5101      56430      
ACCOUNT TITLE:            General Fund
                        Non-Departmental
                        Telephone Utility
NOT TO EXCEED:            $7,449.00
 
Funds for future years are subject to appropriation in the then current annual County budget.
 
 
 
                                                                  _______________________________
Date                                          Director of Finance and Purchasing