Jackson County Missouri - File #: 3472

• File #: 3472
• Version: 0
• Name: Medical Examiner Services agreement with Cass County.
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 3/8/2004
• In control: (R)Health and Justice Committee
• On agenda: 3/8/2004
• Final action: 3/29/2004
• Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $40,150.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2004 Health Fund and authorizing the County Executive to execute an Agreement for Medical Examiner Services with Cass County, Missouri, for compensation payable to Jackson County in the amount of $80,000.00.
• Sponsors: Robert Stringfield
• Indexes: HEALTH FUND, MEDICAL EXAMINER

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/29/2004	0	County Legislature	Consent Agenda	Pass
3/29/2004	0	County Legislature	adopt	Pass
3/22/2004	0	(R)Health and Justice Committee
3/22/2004	0	County Legislature	Consent Agenda	Pass
3/22/2004	0	County Legislature	perfect	Pass
3/16/2004	0	County Legislature	Go To 2nd Perfection	Pass
3/15/2004	0	(R)Health and Justice Committee
3/9/2004	0	County Legislature	Go To 1st Perfection	Pass
3/8/2004	0	County Legislature	assign to committee

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


Title
AN ORDINANCE appropriating $40,150.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2004 Health Fund and authorizing the County Executive to execute an Agreement for Medical Examiner Services with Cass County, Missouri, for compensation payable to Jackson County in the amount of $80,000.00.


Intro
ORDINANCE # 3472, March 8, 2004

INTRODUCED BY Robert A. Stringfield, County Legislator


Body
WHEREAS, Cass County, Missouri, a county of the first class, pursuant to §§ 58.700 and 58.705, RSMo 2000, desires to appoint a physician duly licensed by the Missouri state board of healing arts as Cass County's medical examiner; and,

WHEREAS, § 58.765, RSMo 2000, authorizes any two or more counties to, by contract, join in the appointment of a county medical examiner to serve all such counties and requires the counties' governing bodies to approve the contract, administer the appointment, and allocate the costs among the counties; and,

WHEREAS, Thomas Young, M.D., the duly appointed medical examiner of Jackson County, is fully qualified, ready, and willing to continue to serve as Cass County's Medical Examiner as well; and,

WHEREAS, the Jackson County Medical Examiner and administration and Cass County have agreed on an equitable arrangement for the funding of a joint medical examiner's office to be located at the site of the current Jackson County Medical Examiner's facility; and,

WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the public health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of both Jackson and Cass Counties that the counties cooperate in the joint funding and operation of a single medical examiner's office; and,

WHEREAS, the attached Agreement for Medical Examiner Services sets out the rights and obligations of the parties; and,

WHEREAS, in order to provide for the increased costs to the Jackson County Medical Examiner's office of providing this service, an appropriation is necess...