File #: 230288    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 3/28/2023 In control: Council
On agenda: 4/13/2023 Final action: 4/13/2023
Title: Sponsor: Director of the Law Department Approving and authorizing settlement of a claim for a Workers' Compensation benefit filed by Michael Joseph Smith for injuries resulting from his job while employed by the City.
Sponsors: Director of the Law Department
Attachments: 1. docket memo-smith, 2. 230288 Docket Memo, 3. Authenticated Ordinance 230288

ORDINANCE NO. 230288

 

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Sponsor:  Director of the Law Department

 

Approving and authorizing settlement of a claim for a Workers' Compensation benefit filed by Michael Joseph Smith for injuries resulting from his job while employed by the City.

 

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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1.  That settlement of the claim of Michael Joseph Smith for Workers’ Compensation benefits against the City of Kansas City, Missouri, for injuries while employed by the City, as more fully set forth and subject of a formal claim, Case No. 20-034506, presently pending before the Division of Workers’ Compensation of the State of Missouri, by payment in the amount of $392,301.75, as recommended by the City Attorney and Risk Management Committee,  is hereby approved.

 

Section 2.  That the City Attorney is hereby authorized to pay the sum of $392,301.75 in settlement of said claim from funds heretofore appropriated in Account No. 23-7020-071402-610400.

 

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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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Barry R. Bertram

Assistant City Attorney