File #: 230170    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 2/9/2023 In control: Council
On agenda: 2/22/2023 Final action: 3/2/2023
Title: Sponsor: Director of the Law Department Approving and authorizing settlement of lawsuit entitled Kathy Arnold v. City of Kansas City, Case No. 2016-CV16157, in the amount of $125,000.00.
Sponsors: Director of the Law Department
Attachments: 1. docket memo-arnold, 2. Authenticated Ordinance 230170

ORDINANCE NO. 230170

 

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Sponsor:  Director of the Law Department

 

Approving and authorizing settlement of lawsuit entitled Kathy Arnold v. City of Kansas City, Case No. 2016-CV16157, in the amount of $125,000.00.

 

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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1. That the sum of $125,000.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Water Services Fund to the following account:

 

23-8010-801000-618450                                          Settlement of Legal Claims                                                               $125,000.00

 

Section 2. That the revenue in the following account of the City Legal Expense Fund is hereby increased in the following amount:

 

23-7010-131543-485760                                          Public Official Liability                                                               $125,000.00

 

Section 3. That the sum of $125,000.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the City Legal Expense Fund to the following account:

 

23-7010-131543-618200                                          Public Official Liability                                                               $125,000.00

 

Section 4. That the payment of the sum of $125,000.00 in settlement of the lawsuit styled Kathy Arnold v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 2016-CV16157, as recommended by the City Attorney and the Risk Management Committee, is hereby approved.

 

Section 5.  That the City Attorney is hereby authorized to pay the sum of $125,000.00 in settlement of said claims in this lawsuit from funds previously appropriated charge in Account No. 23-7010-131543-B.

 

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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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James A. Newell

Assistant City Attorney