IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $33,259.77 from the fund balance of the 2008 Anti-Drug Sales Tax Fund and authorizing the Director of Finance and Purchasing to execute Lease Amendment 4 to the lease with K.C. Partners, LLC, for office space in the Oak Tower Building, for the use and benefit of the Public Defender's Office, extending the term from July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2015, at a cost to the County not to exceed $225,259.77 in 2008, and a total cost over the life of the lease amendment not to exceed $1,747,692.96.
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ORDINANCE #4009, June 23, 2008
INTRODUCED BY Dan Tarwater, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, by Resolution 11368, dated July 22, 1996, the Legislature did authorize the execution of a long-term lease for the use and benefit of the Public Defender's Office at the Oak Tower Building, located 324 E. 11th Street in downtown Kansas City, at a total base cost of $1,057,141.85 plus annual percentage increases in operating expenses with the first term ending in 2003; and,
WHEREAS, the 1996 lease's term has been extended on a short-term basis since 2003 by Lease Amendments 2 and 3; and,
WHEREAS, the lease terms as amended are presently continuing on a year-to-year basis with an operating expense pass-through provision obligating the County to pay the pro-rata increases in the tenant's share of the utilities, taxes, and maintenance of the Oak Tower Building; and,
WHEREAS, the previous Administration authorized the inclusion of the Public Defender's employees in County-funded parking spaces and increased the expenses charged to the budgeted amounts for this lease; and,
WHEREAS, the State Public Defender's Office was authorized in 2005 by the previous Administration to solicit proposals for office space for the district office; and,
WHEREAS, after an exhaustive review of the current state of office space leases in downtown Kansas City, the State Public Defende...
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