File #: 19672    Version: 0 Name: animal sheltering services at the Regional Animal Shelter
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 12/7/2017 In control: Finance and Audit Committee
On agenda: 12/11/2017 Final action: 12/15/2017
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute an Intergovernmental Agreement with the City of Independence, Missouri, for the furnishing of animal sheltering services at the Regional Animal Shelter, for funds payable to the County.
Sponsors: Dennis Waits
Indexes: ANIMAL SHELTER, INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT, REGIONAL ANIMAL SHELTER
Attachments: 1. 19672bu.pdf, 2. 19672adopt.pdf, 3. 19672 Intergovernmental Agreement Independence.pdf
Related files: 4505, 18045, 16925, 19675

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

 

Title

A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute an Intergovernmental Agreement with the City of Independence, Missouri, for the furnishing of animal sheltering services at the Regional Animal Shelter, for funds payable to the County.

 

 

Intro

RESOLUTION NO. 19672, December 11, 2017

 

INTRODUCED BY   Dennis Waits, County Legislator

 

 

Body

 WHEREAS, by Resolution 16925, dated June 8, 2009, the Legislature did authorize the execution of an Intergovernmental Agreement with the City of Independence, Missouri (“the City”), for animal control field services and animal control sheltering services for the City and unincorporated areas of Jackson County, for a period ending December 31, 2017; and,

 

WHEREAS, subsequent agreements authorized by the Legislature have provided that, among other things, the County would operate an animal shelter within a building constructed by the County on property owned by the City; and,

 

WHEREAS, the City and the County now recommend the execution of a five-year Intergovernmental Agreement to continue to provide these services, for funds payable to the County, to be passed through to the non-profit organization, Great Plains SPCA, in accordance with a separate agreement now before the Legislature; and,

 

WHEREAS, execution of this Intergovernmental Agreement is in the best interest of the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of Jackson County; now therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Executive be and hereby is authorized to execute the attached Intergovernmental Agreement with the City of Independence, Missouri, for animal sheltering services.

 

Enacted and Approved

Effective Date:  This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

 

 

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Chief Deputy County Counselor                                                               County Counselor

 

Certificate of Passage

 

I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution No. 19672 of December 11, 2017, was duly passed on December 15, 2017 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:

 

Yeas _______9________                                                               Nays _____0_________

 

 

Abstaining ____0_____                                                               Absent _____0_______

 

 

 

 

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Date                                                                                                                                                   Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature