File #: 220995    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 11/10/2022 In control: Council
On agenda: 11/10/2022 Final action: 11/10/2022
Title: Sponsor: Director of the Law Department Reducing the Contingent Appropriation by $1,839,572.00 in the General Fund; appropriating the amount of $1,839,572.00 to the City Legal Expense Fund; authorizing the City Attorney to engage in the resolution of the following cases: Elwood, et al v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, et al., Case No. 2216-CV01501; Holland v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, et al., Case No. 2216- CV01773; Ross v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, et al., Case No. 2216-CV03284; and Broadway-Westport Property, Inc. v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, et al., Case No. 2216- CV06913; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
Attachments: 1. fact sheet-westport, 2. fiscal note-westport, 3. Authenticated Ordinance 220995

ORDINANCE NO. 220995

 

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Sponsor:  Director of the Law Department

 

Reducing the Contingent Appropriation by $1,839,572.00 in the General Fund; appropriating the amount of $1,839,572.00 to the City Legal Expense Fund; authorizing the City Attorney to engage in the resolution of the following cases: Elwood, et al v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, et al., Case No. 2216-CV01501; Holland v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, et al., Case No. 2216- CV01773; Ross v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, et al., Case No. 2216-CV03284; and Broadway-Westport Property, Inc. v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, et al., Case No. 2216- CV06913; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.

 

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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1. That the appropriation in the following account of the General Fund is reduced by the following amount:

 

23-1000-179990-B

Contingent Appropriation

$1,839,572.00

 

Section 2. That the sum of $1,839,572.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the General Fund to the following account:

 

23-1000-129998-X-907010

Transfer to City Legal Expense Fund

$1,839,572.00

 

 

Section 3. That the revenue in the following account of the City Legal Expense Fund is hereby estimated in the following amount:

 

23-7010-120000-501000

Transfer from the General Fund

$1,839,572.00

 

 

Section 4. That the sum of $1,839,572.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the City Legal Expense Fund to the following:

 

23-7010-131545-B-618200

Auto Liability Claims

$1,839,572.00

 

Section 5.  That the City Attorney is hereby authorized to resolve the following cases for the sum of $1,839,572.00 from funds previously appropriated in Account No. 23-7010-131545-B-618200: Elwood, et al v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, et al., Case No. 2216-CV01501; Holland v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, et al., Case No. 2216- CV01773; Ross v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, et al., Case No. 2216-CV03284; and Broadway-Westport Property, Inc. v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, et al., Case No. 2216- CV06913.

 

Section 6. That this ordinance, because it appropriates money, is recognized as an ordinance with an accelerated effective date as provided by Section 503(a)(3)(C) of the City Charter and shall take effect in accordance with Section 503(a)(1) of the City Charter.

 

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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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Tara M. Kelly

Senior Associate City Attorney