File #: 240936    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 10/17/2024 In control: Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee
On agenda: 10/29/2024 Final action: 10/31/2024
Title: Sponsor: Director of Law Department Approving and authorizing settlement of a lawsuit entitled Jolita Hatcher v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 2316-CV30195, in the amount of $117,500.00.
Sponsors: Director of the Law Department
Attachments: 1. docket memo-hatcher, 2. Authenticated Ordinance 240936

ORDINANCE NO. 240936

 

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Sponsor:  Director of Law Department

 

Approving and authorizing settlement of a lawsuit entitled Jolita Hatcher v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 2316-CV30195, in the amount of $117,500.00.

 

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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1. That the payment of the sum of $117,500.00 for the settlement of claims asserted by Jolita Hatcher in the lawsuit styled Jolita Hatcher v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 2316-CV30195, 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 $117,500.00 in settlement of said claims asserted by Jolita Hatcher in this lawsuit and Charge from funds previously appropriated in Account No. 25-7010-131543-B, Public Official 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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                                                                                                                              Mattison T. Harvey

                                                                                                                              Assistant City Attorney