File #: 230685    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 8/16/2023 In control: Council
On agenda: 8/24/2023 Final action: 8/24/2023
Title: Sponsor: Director of the Law Department Approving and authorizing settlement of lawsuit entitled Patrice Nelson v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 2116-CV04606, in the amount of $100,000.00.
Sponsors: Director of the Law Department
Attachments: 1. docket memo-nelson, 2. Authenticated Ordinance 230685

ORDINANCE NO. 230685

 

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Sponsor:  Director of the Law Department

 

Approving and authorizing settlement of lawsuit entitled Patrice Nelson v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 2116-CV04606, in the amount of $100,000.00.

 

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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

Section 1. That the payment of the sum of $100,000.00 in settlement of the lawsuit styled Patrice Nelson v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, Case No. 2116-CV04606, 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 $100,000.00 in settlement of said claims in this lawsuit from funds previously appropriated charge in Account No. 24-7010-131543-B, Public Official Liability 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 Queen

Director of Finance

 

Approved as to form:

 

 

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James A. Newell

Assistant City Attorney