File #: 230040    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 1/12/2023 In control: Council
On agenda: 2/2/2023 Final action: 2/2/2023
Title: Sponsor: Director of the Law Department Approving and authorizing settlement of lawsuit entitled Lynn Woodard v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 15AE-CV02493, in the amount of $1,850,000.00.
Sponsors: Director of the Law Department
Attachments: 1. Approp Admin TMP 2650, 2. docket memo-woodard, 3. Authenticated Ordinance 230040
Related files: 150398

ORDINANCE NO. 230040

 

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Sponsor:  Director of the Law Department

 

Approving and authorizing settlement of lawsuit entitled Lynn Woodard v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 15AE-CV02493, in the amount of $1,850,000.00.

 

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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1. That the sum of $1,850,000.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Aviation Fund to the following account:

 

23-8300-621000-646200                                            Settlement of Legal Claims                                              $1,850,000.00

 

Section 2. That 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                                           $1,850,000.00

 

Section 3. That the sum of $1,850,000.00 is appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the City Legal Expense Fund to the following account:

 

23-7010-131543-618200                                           Public Official Claims                                           $1,850,000.00

 

Section 4. That the payment of the sum of $1,850,000.00 in settlement of the lawsuit styled Lynn Woodard v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 15AE-CV02493, 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 $1,850,000.00 in settlement of said claims in this lawsuit from funds herein appropriated 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 and legality:

 

 

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Tara M. Kelly

Senior Associate City Attorney