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File #: 21995    Version: 0 Name: communications and policy consulting services
Type: Resolution Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 8/4/2025 In control: County Legislature
On agenda: 8/18/2025 Final action:
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the Chairman of the Legislature to execute a Consulting Agreement with Heartland Communications, LLC, of Kansas City, MO, to provide communication and policy services to the Legislature, at a cost not to exceed $25,000.00
Sponsors: Charlie Franklin
Attachments: 1. 21995 Signed, 2. RLA, 3. Fiscal Note - 25-337 Legislative consulting, 4. Heartland Communications Proposal August 2025
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IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

Title
A RESOLUTION authorizing the Chairman of the Legislature to execute a Consulting Agreement with Heartland Communications, LLC, of Kansas City, MO, to provide communication and policy services to the Legislature, at a cost not to exceed $25,000.00

Intro
RESOLUTION NO. 21995, August 18, 2025

INTRODUCED BY Charlie Franklin, County Legislator


Body
WHEREAS, the Legislature has a continuing need for a consultant to assess policy and communication services; and,

WHEREAS, this contract will help to provide services through December 31, 2025; now therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED that the Chairman of the Legislature be and hereby is authorized to execute a Consulting Agreement with Heartland Communications of Kansas City, MO in the form to be approved by the County Counselor; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of Finance and Purchasing is authorized to make all payments, including final payment on the contract and any extensions thereto, to the extent that sufficient appropriations to the using spending agency are contained in the then current Jackson County budget.

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. 21995 of August 18, 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 treasu...

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