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File #: 250390    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 5/1/2025 In control: Council
On agenda: 5/15/2025 Final action: 5/15/2025
Title: Sponsor: Director of Law Department Approving and authorizing settlement of a lawsuit entitled Frank Blake v. Richard Starks and City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 22AE-CC00261, in the amount of $387,000.00.
Sponsors: Director of the Law Department
Attachments: 1. docket memo-blake, 2. Authenticated Ordinance 250390

ORDINANCE NO. 250390

 

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Sponsor: Director of Law Department

 

Approving and authorizing settlement of a lawsuit entitled Frank Blake v. Richard Starks and City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 22AE-CC00261, in the amount of $387,000.00.

 

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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1. That the payment of the sum of $387,000.00 for the settlement of claims asserted by Frank Blake in the lawsuit styled Frank Blake v. Richard Starks and City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 22AE-CC00261, as recommended by the City Attorney and the Risk Management Committee, is hereby approved.

 

Section 2. That the City Attorney is hereby authorized to pay the sum of $387,000.00 in settlement of said claims asserted by Frank Blake in this lawsuit from funds previously appropriated in Account No. 26-7010-131521-618200, General Liability Fund.

 

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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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                                                                                                                              Tammy L. Queen

                                                                                                                              Director of Finance

 

                                                                                                                              Approved as to form:

 

 

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                                                                                                                              Jason Conkright

                                                                                                                              Assistant City Attorney