File #: 4923    Version: 0 Name: Outside attorneys' fees for use by the Office of the County Counselor
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 10/27/2016 In control: County Legislature
On agenda: 10/31/2016 Final action: 10/31/2016
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $88,195.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2016 General Fund to cover the cost of outside attorneys' fees for use by the Office of the County Counselor.
Sponsors: Dennis Waits
Indexes: COUNSELOR'S OFFICE, GENERAL FUND
Attachments: 1. 4923bu.pdf, 2. 4923adopt

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


Title
AN ORDINANCE appropriating $88,195.00 from the undesignated fund balance of the 2016 General Fund to cover the cost of outside attorneys' fees for use by the Office of the County Counselor.


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ORDINANCE NO. 4923, October 31, 2016

INTRODUCED BY Dennis Waits, County Legislator

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WHEREAS, the County Counselor's Office reached a successful conclusion on several pending legal matters and was able to terminate contracts with certain outside attorneys; and,

WHEREAS, the County Counselor recommends that the funds made available from terminating these contracts be re-appropriated for use on other legal matters within his office; and,

WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary to place these funds in the appropriate spending account; and,

WHEREAS, the County Executive recommends said appropriation; now therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation within the 2016 General Fund be and hereby is made:


DEPARTMENT/DIVISION CHARACTER DESCRIPTION FROM TO

General Fund
Non-Departmental

001-2810 Undesignated Fund Balance $88,195
001-5101 56020 - Legal Services $88,195









Enacted and Approved
Effective Date: This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its signature by the County Executive.

APPROVED AS TO FORM:


______________________________ ____________________________
Chief Deputy County Counselor County Counselor

I hereby certify that the attached Ordinance, Ordinance No. 4923 introduced on October 31, 2016, was duly passed on October 31, 2016 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:


Yeas _______8________ Nays _____0________


Abstaining _____0______ Absent _____0_______


Excused ______1_______




This Ordinance is hereby transmitted to the County Executive for his signature.


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