ORDINANCE NO. 060027
Approving and authorizing
settlement of a lawsuit entitled Donald Woodell and Kathy Sullivan-Trader v.
Loren Peters and City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 0516-CV02915; appropriating
$300,000.00 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Legal Expense Fund to
the General Liability Claims account; and recognizing an emergency.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE
COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the
payment of the sum of $300,000.00 in settlement of the claims in a lawsuit
styled, Donald Woodell and Kathy Sullivan-Trader v. Loren Peters and City of
Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 0516-CV02915, as recommended by the City
Attorney and the Risk Management Committee, is hereby approved.
Section 2. That
$300,000 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the
Legal Expense Fund to the following account in the Legal Expense Fund:
06-7010-131521-B General
Liability Claims $300,000.00
Section 3. That
the City Attorney is hereby authorized to pay the sum of $300,000.00 in
settlement of this lawsuit from funds heretofore appropriated in Account No.
06-7010-131521-B, General Liability Claims.
Section 4. That
this ordinance is recognized as an emergency measure within the provisions of
Section 15, Article II of the Charter of Kansas City and shall take effect
immediately in accordance with that section.
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I hereby certify that there is a balance,
otherwise unencumbered, to the credit of the appropriation to which the
foregoing expenditure is to be charged, and a cash balance, otherwise
unencumbered, in the treasury, to the credit of the fund from which payment is
to be made, each sufficient to meet the obligation hereby incurred.
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Debra
R. Hinsvark
Director
of Finance
Approved
as to form and legality:
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Saskia
C.M. Jacobse
Assistant City Attorney