File #: 21129    Version: Name: Legal Services County Counselor
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 12/7/2022 In control: Legislature As A Whole
On agenda: 12/12/2022 Final action: 12/12/2022
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Counselor to execute a Legal Services Agreement and Addendums to existing Legal Services Agreements with certain lawyers and law firms at an aggregate cost to the County not to exceed $64,850.00, for services to be performed in 2022-2023.
Sponsors: Charlie Franklin
Indexes: COUNTY COUNSELOR, FLOOR AMENDMENT , LEGAL SERVICES AGREEMENT
Attachments: 1. 21129 bu.pdf, 2. 21129adopted.pdf, 3. 21129 Seyferth, Blumentahl & Harris.pdf, 4. 21129 Husch Blackwell Abarca matter.pdf, 5. 21129 Husch Blackwell Whistleblower Complaint.pdf
Related files: 21047, 21145

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

Title

A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Counselor to execute a Legal Services Agreement and Addendums to existing Legal Services Agreements with certain lawyers and law firms at an aggregate cost to the County not to exceed $64,850.00, for services to be performed in 2022-2023.

 

Intro

RESOLUTION NO. 21129, December 12, 2022

 

INTRODUCED BY Charlie Franklin, County Legislator

 

Body

 WHEREAS, the County Counselor recommends that he be authorized to execute a Legal Services Agreement and Addendums to existing Legal Services Agreements with certain law firms to provide legal services to the County in certain new and ongoing matters; and,

 

WHEREAS, the law firms for which an Agreement and Addendums are recommended, the services to be provided, and not to exceed amounts for services to be performed in 2022-2023, are as follows:

 

Lawyer/Law Firm

Matter

Amount

Husch Blackwell Kansas City (Jackson County), MO

 Conflict of Interest Matter

 $25,000

 

 

 

Seyferth Blumenthal & Harris  Kansas City (Jackson County), MO

Employment Discrimination Matter

$22,420

 

 

 

Husch Blackwell Kansas City (Jackson County), MO

Whistle Blower Matter

$17,430

 

 

 

 

Total

$64,850

 

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 Legal Services Agreement and Addendums to the existing Legal Services Agreements with the lawyers and/or law firms identified in this Resolution, for terms ending June 30, 2023, at an aggregate cost to the County not exceed $64,850.00; 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 Agreement and Addendums.

 

 

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. 21129 of December 12, 2022, was duly passed on December 12, 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:                                          $64,850.00

 

 

 

______________________                                                               ________________________________

Date                      Chief Administrative Officer