File #: 20138    Version: 0 Name: Legal Srvs Seyferth, Blumenthal & Harris
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 4/4/2019 In control: Legislature As A Whole
On agenda: 4/8/2019 Final action: 4/15/2019
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Counselor to execute Legal Services Agreements with Seyferth, Blumenthal & Harris LLC of Kansas City, MO, at an aggregate cost to the County in 2019 not to exceed $127,000.00.
Sponsors: Theresa Cass Galvin
Indexes: COUNTY COUNSELOR, LEGAL SERVICES AGREEMENT
Attachments: 1. 20138bu.pdf, 2. 20138adopt.pdf, 3. 20138 Legal Svs Seyferth - Miller.pdf, 4. 20138 Legal Svs Seyferth - Jacoby.pdf

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

 

 

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A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Counselor to execute Legal Services Agreements with Seyferth, Blumenthal & Harris LLC of Kansas City, MO, at an aggregate cost to the County in 2019 not to exceed $127,000.00.

 

 

Intro

RESOLUTION NO. 20138, April 8, 2019

 

INTRODUCED BY Theresa Galvin, County Legislator

 

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 WHEREAS, the Interim County Counselor recommends Legal Services Agreements with  Seyferth, Blumenthal & Harris LLC  of Kansas City, MO, to provide legal representation to the County and county employees in two pending employment related lawsuits; and,

 

WHEREAS, the Office of the County Counselor recommends the retention of private defense counsel in these matters; and,

 

WHEREAS, this representation is authorized by chapter 16 of the County Code; now therefore,

 

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the Interim County Counselor be and hereby is authorized to execute Legal Services Agreements with  Seyferth, Blumenthal & Harris LLC  of Kansas City, MO, for a term ending December 31, 2019, at a cost to the County in 2019 not exceed $ 127,000.00.

 

 

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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Interim County Counselor                                                               

 

 

Certificate of Passage

 

I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution No. 20138 of April 8, 2019, was duly passed on April 15, 2019 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:

 

 

Yeas ________8_________                                          Nays ______0_______

 

 

Abstaining _____0______                                          Absent _____1_______

 

 

 

 

__________________________                     ______________________________

Date                                                                                                                                                   Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature

 

 

Fiscal Note

There is a balance otherwise unencumbered to the credit of the appropriation to which the expenditure is chargeable and there is a cash balance otherwise unencumbered in the treasury to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made each sufficient to provide for the obligation herein authorized.

 

ACCOUNT NUMBER:    001 1101 56020

ACCOUNT TITLE:          General Fund

                                                                      County Counselors

                                                                             Legal Services

NOT TO EXCEED:                            $127,000.00

 

 

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Date                                                         Chief Administrative Officer