File #: 19460    Version: 0 Name: Cooperative Agreement for Medical Examiner Services with Clay County
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 4/20/2017 In control: Health and Environment Committee
On agenda: 4/24/2017 Final action: 5/1/2017
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute a Cooperative Agreement for Medical Examiner Services with Clay County, Missouri, for compensation payable to Jackson County for the period July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018, in the amount of $306,028.80.
Sponsors: Crystal Williams, Theresa Cass Galvin
Indexes: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT, MEDICAL EXAMINER SERVICES
Attachments: 1. 19460bu, 2. 19460adopt.pdf
Related files: 18999, 19840, 5017
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


Title
A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute a Cooperative Agreement for Medical Examiner Services with Clay County, Missouri, for compensation payable to Jackson County for the period July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018, in the amount of $306,028.80.


Intro
RESOLUTION NO. 19460, April 24, 2017

INTRODUCED BY Crystal Williams and Theresa Galvin, County Legislators


Body
WHEREAS, Clay County, Missouri, a county of the first class, is required by section 58.700 and section 58.705, RSMo, to appoint a physician duly licensed by the Missouri State Board of Healing Arts as Clay County's medical examiner; and,

WHEREAS, section 58.765, RSMo 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, by Resolution 18999, dated November 16, 2015, the Legislature did authorize a twelve-month agreement for Diane Peterson, M.D., the duly appointed Chief Medical Examiner of Jackson County to serve as Clay County's Medical Examiner through December 31, 2016; and,

WHEREAS, the Jackson County Medical Examiner, Jackson County administration, and Clay County have agreed on an equitable arrangement for the continued funding of a joint medical examiner's office located at the site of the current Jackson County Medical Examiner's facility, which has worked satisfactorily for the past few years; and,

WHEREAS, the recommended agreement calls for the extension of the current Cooperative Agreement through June 30, 2017, at the previously agreed upon rates and the execution of a new twelve-month Cooperative Agreement through June 30, 2018, for compensation payable to Jackson County in the amount of $306,028.80; and,

WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the public health, safety...

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