File #: 230041    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 1/13/2023 In control: Council
On agenda: 1/26/2023 Final action: 1/26/2023
Title: Sponsor: Director of the Law Department Approving and authorizing settlement of a lawsuit entitled Justin Thornton v. City of KCMO; Case No. 2116-CV12163.
Sponsors: Director of the Law Department
Attachments: 1. docket memo-thornton, 2. Authenticated Ordinance 230041
Related files: 150398

ORDINANCE NO. 230041

 

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Sponsor:  Director of the Law Department

 

Approving and authorizing settlement of a lawsuit entitled Justin Thornton v. City of KCMO; Case No. 2116-CV12163.

 

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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1. That the payment of the sum of $127,500.00 for the settlement of claims asserted by Justin Thornton in the lawsuit styled Justin Thornton v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 2116-CV12163, 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 $127,500.00 in settlement of said claims asserted by Justin Thornton in this lawsuit from funds previously appropriated in Account No. 23-7010-131545-B, City Legal Expense 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

                                                                                                                              Senior Associate City Attorney