File #: 18279    Version: 0 Name: Director of Finance & Purchasing request for propsals to seve as Lobbyist to Legislature
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 10/14/2013 In control: Inter-Governmental Affairs Committee
On agenda: 10/14/2013 Final action: 10/21/2013
Title: A RESOLUTION directing the Director of Finance and Purchasing to issue a Request for Proposals to serve as Lobbyist to the Legislature.
Sponsors: Crystal Williams
Indexes: LOBBYIST, REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
Attachments: 1. 18279adopt.pdf
      
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
 
 
Title
A RESOLUTION directing the Director of Finance and Purchasing to issue a Request for Proposals to serve as Lobbyist to the Legislature.
 
Intro
RESOLUTION NO. 18279, October 14, 2013
 
INTRODUCED BY Crystal Williams, County Legislator
 
Body
WHEREAS, section 295, Jackson County Code, 1984, provides authority for the position of Lobbyist to the Legislature; and,
 
WHEREAS, section 295.5 of the code states that the Lobbyist shall be appointed by the Legislature and serve under the direction, and oversight of the Legislature's Intergovernmental Affairs Committee; and,
 
WHEREAS, the position of Lobbyist has not been subject to any kind of competitive selection process for several years; and,
 
WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the health, welfare, and safety of the citizens of Jackson County that the Legislature undertake a competitive selection process for this important position; now therefore,
 
BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the Legislature hereby directs the Director of Finance and Purchasing to issue a Request for Proposals, or to initiate some other appropriate competitive selection process, for the
 
position of Lobbyist to the Legislature.
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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Chief Deputy County Counselor                        County Counselor
 
Certificate of Passage
 
I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution No. 18279 of October 14, 2013, was duly passed on October 21, 2013 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:
 
 
Yeas __________9_______      Nays ____0_______
 
 
Abstaining ______0_____            Absent ___0_________
 
 
 
 
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Date                                          Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature