File #: 230248    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 3/13/2023 In control: Council
On agenda: 3/23/2023 Final action: 3/23/2023
Title: Sponsor: Director of the Law Department Approving and authorizing settlement of a claim for a Workers' Compensation benefit filed by the spouse of Raymond Wynn for an alleged occupational illness resulting from his job while employed by the City.
Sponsors: Director of the Law Department
Attachments: 1. Authenticated Ordinance 230248
Related files: 150398
ORDINANCE NO. 230248

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Sponsor: Director of the Law Department

Approving and authorizing settlement of a claim for a Workers' Compensation benefit filed by the spouse of Raymond Wynn for an alleged occupational illness 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 the spouse of Raymond Wynn for Workers' Compensation death benefits against the City of Kansas City, Missouri, for an occupational disease of lung cancer from alleged toxic exposure while employed as a firefighter by the City, as more fully set forth and subject of a formal claim, Case No. 18-106438, presently pending before the Division of Workers' Compensation of the State of Missouri, by payment to Jean Wynn in the amount of $216,660.27 and then weekly payments of $947.64 for the remainder of her life, unless she remarries, 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 $216,660.27, and then weekly payments of $947.64, 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....

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