HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1986.06.26 - 10811June 26, 1986
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #86184
BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE - DR. G. WILLIAM CADDELL, CHAIRPERSON
EV RE: CORPORATION COUNSEL - LEGAL FEES - PERINOFF VS. OAKLAND COUNTY
EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT COMMISSION
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Oakland County Employees' Retirement Commission was served
with a Complaint for Superintending Control entitled Perinoff vs Oakland
County Employees Retirement Commission.; and
WHEREAS said lawsuit challenges the Oakland County Employees' Retire-
ment System Rules and the interpretation of those Rules with reference to
the ability of an elected official over the age of 70 years to accumulate
credited service and/or to draw retirement benefits; and
WHEREAS attorneys in the Department of Corporation Counsel may be
called upon to testify as witnesses in this matter, creating a conflict of
interest; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Employees' Retirement Commission has
recommended that Ronald Zajac, Esq., of Detroit be retained as outside
counsel to defend this matter; and
WHEREAS the Department of Corporation Counsel recommends that Ronald
Zajac, Esq., be retained as outside defense counsel at the rate of $75.00
per hour.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners authorizes the hiring of Ronald Zajac, Esq., as outside
defense counsel in the case of Perinoff vs Oakland County Employees
Retirement Commission.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Finance Committee finds $200.00
available in the 1986 Contingency Account to cover legal expenses incurred
in the defense of Perinoff vs Oakland County Employees Retirement
Commission during 1986.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners appropriates
$200.00 from the 1986 Contingency Account and transfers said amount to the
Corporation Counsel Budget-Legal Expense Account as follows:
909-01-00-9900 Contingency $ (200.00)
115-01-00-3456 Legal Expense 200.00
$ -0--
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I move the
adoption of the foregoing resolution.
FINANCE OOMMITTEE
#86184
June 26, 1986
Moved by Caddell supported by Lanni the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Pernick, Rewold, Rowland, Skarritt, Webb,Aaron, Caddell, Doyon, Gosling,
Hassberger, Hobart, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Moffitt, Nelson, Page. (17).
NAYS: Fortino, McPherson. (2)
ABSTAIN: Perinoff. (1)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY- OF OAKLAND).
Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a
seal, do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on June 26, 1986
with the original record thereof now remaining in my office,
and that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and
of the whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
this 26th day of June 198_6
Lynn/DT Allen, Coaly Clerk/
Register of Deeds