Jackson County Missouri - File #: 5230

• File #: 5230
• Version: 0
• Name: Appropriate fund execute Agmt Regional Animal Shelter
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/20/2019
• In control: Land Use Committee
• On agenda: 5/20/2019
• Final action: 6/10/2019
• Title: AN ORDINANCE transferring $240,000.00 within the 2019 General Fund and appropriating $100,000.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2019 Health Fund, and authorizing the County Executive to execute an Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreement with the City of Independence, MO, to set out the terms of the management and operation of the Jackson County Regional Animal Shelter, at a cost to the County in 2019 in the amount of $340,000.00.
• Sponsors: Theresa Cass Galvin, Tony Miller
• Indexes: CITY OF INDEPENDENCE, INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT, JACKSON COUNTY REGIONAL ANIMAL SHELTER
• Related files: 19675, 5380

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/10/2019	0	County Legislature	adopt	Pass
6/10/2019	0	County Legislature	Consent Agenda
6/3/2019	0	County Legislature	perfect	Pass
6/3/2019	0	County Legislature	Consent Agenda
6/3/2019	0	Land Use Committee	recommend for perfection
5/21/2019	0	County Legislature	Go To 1st Perfection	Pass
5/20/2019	0	County Legislature	assign to committee

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

Title
AN ORDINANCE transferring $240,000.00 within the 2019 General Fund and appropriating $100,000.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2019 Health Fund, and authorizing the County Executive to execute an Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreement with the City of Independence, MO, to set out the terms of the management and operation of the Jackson County Regional Animal Shelter, at a cost to the County in 2019 in the amount of $340,000.00.

Intro
ORDINANCE NO. 5230, May 20, 2019

INTRODUCED BY Theresa Galvin and Tony Miller, County Legislator


Body
WHEREAS, by Resolution 19675, dated December 11, 2017, the Legislature awarded a sixty-month contract to Great Plains SPCA of Merriam, KS, for the management and operation of the Jackson County Regional Animal Shelter; and,

WHEREAS, Great Plains has given notice to the County that it will no longer operate the shelter effective July 1, 2019; and,


WHEREAS, the City of Independence and the County have negotiated the attached Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreement whereunder the City will assume operations of the Regional Animal Shelter; and,

WHEREAS, under the proposed Agreement, the City of Independence has agreed to sell to the County the approximately seven acres of land that the Regional Animal Shelter is located on, for the sum of $240,000.00; and,

WHEREAS, the County will then lease to the City of Independence the Regional Animal Shelter facility and site with all the existing furniture, fixtures, and equipment for an initial term of two years, with a provision for an extension on such terms as may be mutually agreed; and,

WHEREAS, the County will pay the City the annual sum of $100,000.00 for each of the initial two years of the Agreement, to assist the City with transition costs associated with assuming responsibility for the operation of the facility; and,

WHEREAS, execution of the Agreement with City of Independence is in the best inter...