File #: 20153    Version: 0 Name: Legal Services Agreements County Counselor Office
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 4/29/2019 In control: Legislature As A Whole
On agenda: 4/29/2019 Final action: 5/6/2019
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Counselor to execute Legal Services Agreements with certain lawyers and law firms, at an aggregate cost to the County not exceed $368,700.00, for services to be performed in 2019.
Sponsors: Theresa Cass Galvin
Indexes: LEGAL SERVICES AGREEMENT
Attachments: 1. 20153bu.pdf, 2. 20153adopt.pdf, 3. 20153 Husch Blackwell - Smith.pdf, 4. 20153 Husch Blackwell - Obasi.pdf, 5. 20153 Encompass Resolution.pdf, 6. 20153 Seyferth Blumenthal & Harris.pdf, 7. 20153 Lathrop Gage.pdf, 8. 20153 Hogan Lovells .pdf, 9. 20153 Legal Serv. William G Snyder.pdf
Related files: 20231, 20999, 20826, 20277

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

 

 

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A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Counselor to execute Legal Services Agreements with certain lawyers and law firms, at an aggregate cost to the County not exceed $368,700.00, for services to be performed in 2019.

 

 

Intro

RESOLUTION NO. 20153, April 29, 2019

 

INTRODUCED BY Theresa Galvin, County Legislator

 

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 WHEREAS, the County Counselor recommends that he be authorized to execute Legal Services Agreements with certain lawyers and law firms to provide legal services to the County that, due to their complex nature and to the County Counselor’s Office’s current staffing situation, are beyond the present capabilities of the office; and,

 

WHEREAS, the lawyers and law firms for whom contracts are recommended, the services to provided, and not to exceed amounts for services to be performed in 2019 are as follows:

Lawyer/Law Firm                                                               Matter                                                                                                                              Amount

Hogan Lovells                                                               Rock Island Rail                                                                                    $112,150

Washington, DC                                                               Corridor Administrative

                                                                                                         Proceeding

 

Husch Blackwell                                                               Employment Discrimination                                          $160,000

Kansas City, MO                                                               Cases

 

Encompass Resolutions                                          Human Resources                                                                                    $5,000

Kansas City, MO                                                               Investigation

 

William G. Snyder                                                               Collections and Assessment                                          $10,000

Independence, MO                                                               Matters (increase to existing

                                                                                                         $10,000 contract)

 

 

Lathrop Gage                                                               Dissolution of Non-for-Profit                                          $4,000

Kansas City, MO                                                               Corporation

 

Seyferth, Blumenthal                                          Employment Discrimination Case                                          $77,550

& Harris                                                                                                      _________                     

Kansas City, MO

                                                                                                                                                                        Total                $368,700

 

now therefore,

 

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Executive be and hereby is authorized to execute Legal Services Agreements with the law firms and lawyers identified in this Resolution, for a term ending December 31, 2019, at an aggregate to cost to the County not exceed $368,700.00; and,

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of the Department of Finance and Purchasing be and hereby is authorized to make all payments, including final payments on the contracts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enacted and Approved

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

 

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

 

 

_______________________________              ______________________________

Chief Deputy County Counselor                     County Counselor                     

 

 

Certificate of Passage

 

I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution No. 20153 of April 29, 2019, was duly passed on May 6, 2019 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:

 

 

Yeas ________9_________                                          Nays _____0________

 

 

Abstaining _____0______                                          Absent _____0_______

 

 

 

 

__________________________                     ______________________________

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:                            $358,700.00

 

ACCOUNT NUMBER:    045 1902 56020

ACCOUNT TITLE:          General Fund

                                                                      Assessment Fund

                                                                             Assessment

NOT TO EXCEED:                            $10,000.00

 

 

 

 

______________________                                          _________________________________

Date                                                         Chief Administrative Officer