File #: 240262    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 2/23/2024 In control: Council
On agenda: 3/21/2024 Final action: 3/21/2024
Title: Sponsor: Director of the Law Department Approving and authorizing settlement of the lawsuit styled DJS, et al. v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 2116-CV27099, in the amount of $237,500.00.
Sponsors: Director of the Law Department
Attachments: 1. docket memo - djs, 2. Approp, 3. Authenticated Ordinance 240262

ORDINANCE NO. 240262

 

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Sponsor:   Director of the Law Department

 

Approving and authorizing settlement of the lawsuit styled DJS, et al. v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 2116-CV27099, in the amount of $237,500.00.

 

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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1. That the sum of $237,500.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the City Legal Expense Fund to the following account:

 

24-7010-131521-B                                          Settlement of Legal Claims                                                               $237,500.00

 

Section 2. That the payment of the sum of $237,500.00 for the settlement of claims asserted by DJS and Bradley Spitz in the lawsuit styled DJS, et al., v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 2116-CV27099, as recommended by the City Attorney and the Risk Management Committee, is hereby approved.

 

Section 3. That the City Attorney is hereby authorized to pay the sum of $237,500.00 in settlement of said claims asserted by DJS and Bradley Spitz from funds previously appropriated in Account No. 24-7010-131521-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:

 

 

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G. Steven Diegel

                                                                                                                              Senior Associate City Attorney