Jackson County Missouri - File #: 4553

• File #: 4553
• Version: 0
• Name: Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreement for Tax Verification Information
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 8/19/2013
• In control: Finance and Audit Committee
• On agenda: 8/19/2013
• Final action: 9/3/2013
• Title: AN ORDINANCE repealing section 1003., Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to County purchasing, enacting in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject, and authorizing the County Executive to execute an Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreement for Tax Verification Information with the City of Kansas City, Missouri, Johnson County, Kansas, and the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas.
• Sponsors: Scott Burnett
• Indexes: INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT, JACKSON COUNTY CODE, TAX VERIFICATION INFORMATION

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/3/2013	0	County Legislature	Consent Agenda	Pass
9/3/2013	0	County Legislature	adopt	Pass
8/26/2013	0	Finance and Audit Committee
8/26/2013	0	County Legislature	Consent Agenda	Pass
8/26/2013	0	County Legislature	perfect	Pass
8/20/2013	0	County Legislature	Go To 1st Perfection	Pass
8/19/2013	0	County Legislature	assign to committee

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


Title
AN ORDINANCE repealing section 1003., Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to County purchasing, enacting in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject, and authorizing the County Executive to execute an Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreement for Tax Verification Information with the City of Kansas City, Missouri, Johnson County, Kansas, and the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas.


Intro
ORDINANCE NO. 4553, August 19, 2013

INTRODUCED BY Scott Burnett, County Legislator


Body
WHEREAS, a project known as "CORE 4" began approximately a year ago to improve regional efforts through a group formed by the management of Jackson County, Johnson County, Kansas, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, and the City of Kansas City, Missouri, with the goal of finding ways to work more closely together to better the quality of service, efficiencies, or innovations; and

WHEREAS, from this collaboration, it was learned that some entities were not performing a tax clearance for contractors prior to award and/or payment; and

WHEREAS, discussion ensured and there was strong support to have the various entities' purchasing agents work together to begin a process of providing tax clearances on larger contracts for not only their own jurisdictions, but also the surrounding partners; and

WHEREAS, all of the staffs have been consulted and believe this would not be an administratively cumbersome process; and

WHEREAS, it is being proposed that the County provide tax clearance information on Jackson County tax obligations to the other three partners for their large contracts, while Jackson County will seek the same information from the other three partners on County contracts that are larger than $150,000; and,

WHERAS, in the event a proposed contractor is not current on taxes in all the jurisdictions, the contractor would be...