File #: 20999    Version: 0 Name: fourth addendum legal services agreement w/ Seyferth, Blumenthal and Harris, LLP
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 6/16/2022 In control: Finance and Audit Committee
On agenda: 6/21/2022 Final action: 6/27/2022
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Counselor to execute a Fifth Addendum to the Legal Services Agreement with Seyferth, Blumenthal & Harris, LLP, of Kansas City, MO, at an actual cost to the County not to exceed $356,500.00, for services to be performed through December 31, 2022.
Sponsors: Charlie Franklin
Indexes: ADDENDUM, COUNTY COUNSELOR, LEGAL SERVICES AGREEMENT
Attachments: 1. 20999bu.pdf, 2. 20999adopted.pdf, 3. 20999 Seyferth, Blumenthal & Harris.pdf
Related files: 20153, 20855, 21047

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

Title

A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Counselor to execute a Fifth Addendum to the Legal Services Agreement with Seyferth, Blumenthal & Harris, LLP, of Kansas City, MO, at an actual cost to the County not to exceed $356,500.00, for services to be performed through December 31, 2022.

 

 

Intro

RESOLUTION NO. 20999, June 21, 2022

 

INTRODUCED BY Charlie Franklin, County Legislator

 

Body

WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution 20153, dated April 29, 2019, the County Counselor executed a Legal Services Agreement with the law firm of Seyferth, Blumenthal & Harris, LLP, of Kansas City, MO, to provide specialized legal services in connection with the defense of a pending employment discrimination claim; and,

 

WHEREAS, subsequent addenda have brought the total authorization under this contract up to the amount of $369,050.00; and,

 

WHEREAS, the County Counselor recommends that he be authorized to execute a Fifth Addendum to the Legal Services Agreement to provide for additional compensation to be payable to the firm in the additional amount of $356,500.00; now therefore,

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Counselor be and hereby is authorized to execute a Fifth Addendum to the Legal Services Agreement with Seyferth, Blumenthal & Harris, LLP, of Kansas City, MO, for services to be performed through December 31, 2022, at an actual cost to the County not to exceed $356,500.00 in a form to be approved by the County Counselor; 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 payment, on the Addendum.

 

 

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. 20999 of June 21, 2022, was duly passed on June 27, 2022 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:                                          $356,500.00

 

 

 

______________________                                                               ________________________________

Date                      Chief Administrative Officer