ORDINANCE NO. 240278
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Sponsor: Councilmember Andrea Bough
Authorizing the City Manager to execute a one-year $107,146.00 8th contract amendment with Garry and Associates Insurance Agency, Inc. for benefits advisory services to the City's Healthcare System Trust for the period from March 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025, with three possible one-year renewal options, from previously appropriated funds.
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WHEREAS, the City’s current contract with Garry and Associates Insurance Agency, Inc. for benefits advisory services to the City's Healthcare System Trust began on March 1, 2016; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees (“the Board”) of the City’s Healthcare System Trust has been satisfied with their services and has authorized several renewal options; and
WHEREAS, on June 12, 2023, consistent with the Board’s authority under Section 2-1390(f)(1) to “engage investment, safekeeping, advisory, legal and other professional services as it deems necessary, the Board voted to add one more year to the contract, with three additional one-year renewal options; and
WHEREAS, as the Board is using Garry and Associates Insurance Agency’s experience and services during current contract negotiations for employee health benefits for the next fiscal year, it is in the City’s best interests to approve this 8th contract amendment; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the City Manager is hereby authorized to execute a $107,146.00 8th contract amendment with Garry and Associates Insurance Agency, Inc. for benefits advisory services to the City's Healthcare System Trust for the period from March 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025, with three possible one-year renewal options, from funds previously appropriated in Account No. 24-6640-142500-B-619080.
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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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Joseph A. Guarino
Senior Associate City Attorney