File #: 210772    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 8/30/2021 In control: Council
On agenda: 9/16/2021 Final action: 9/23/2021
Title: Approving and authorizing settlement of a lawsuit entitled Bowman, et al., v. City of Kansas City, Missouri; Case No. 2016-CV19199.
Attachments: 1. fact sheet-bowman, 2. fiscal note-bowman, 3. Authenticated Ordinance 210772

ORDINANCE NO. 210772

 

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Approving and authorizing settlement of a lawsuit entitled Bowman, et al., v. City of Kansas City, Missouri; Case No. 2016-CV19199.

 

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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1. That the payment of the sum of $290,000.00 in settlement of the claims asserted by Rosietta Bowman, Shelly Browning, Jaylen Browning, and Jayden Browning in the lawsuit styled Bowman, et al., v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 2016-CV19199, 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 $290,000.00 in settlement of said claims asserted in this lawsuit from funds previously appropriated in Account No. 22-7010-131521-B, 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 and legality:

 

 

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                                                                                                                              G. Steven Diegel

                                                                                                                              Sr. Associate City Attorney