HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1985.02.14 - 10994MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION # 85031
February 14, 1985
BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE, DR. C. WILLIAM CADDELL, CHAIRMAN
IN RE: PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT - LEGAL FEES - WEBER V. COUNTY OF OAKLAND,
et. al.
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Board of Commissioners approved the Oakland County Solid Waste
Plan; and
WHEREAS the plan has been challenged in the U. S. District Court; and
WHEREAS the Firm of Dickinson, Wright, Moon, VanDusen and Freeman was
retained to implement the plan and, as such, possesses the necessary back-
ground to best defend the challenge in Federal Case No. 8273670, Weber v.
County of Oakland, et. al. for a fee not to exceed $7,500.00 as passed by
the Oakland County Board of Commissioners on November 18, 1982, Miscellaneous
Resolution #82342; and
WHEREAS to date, $16,493.78 has been expended in legal fees as authorized
by Miscellaneous Resolution #83239 & #84030, consistent with the attached
schedule; and
WHEREAS $365.53 is requested for a final billing for services rendered in
said lawsuit; and
WHEREAS Corporation Counsel finds the attorney fees charged to be reasonable
for services rendered and recommends payment in the amount of $365.53.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Finance Committee finds $366 available
in the 1985 Contingency Account to cover said cost.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners appropriates $366
from the 1985 Contingency Account and transfers said amount to the Corporation
Counsel Division - Legal Expense Account as follows:
909-01-00-9900 Contingency $(366)
115-01-00-3456 Legal Expense 366
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Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I move the adoption of
the foregoing resolution.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
LEGAL SERVICES
DICKINSON, WRIGHT, MOON, VANDUSEN & FREEMAN
SUMMARY APPROPRIATION/PAYMENTS
Miscellaneous Amount
Date Resolution # Appropriation Expended
8/18/83 83239 7,500.00 6,985.93
2/23/84 84030 9,507.85 9,507.85
Total Expended 16,493.78
85031 February 14, 1985
Moved by Caddell supported by McConnell the resolution be adopted.
Price, Rewold,
(17)
AYES: R. Kuhn, Lanni, Law, McConnell, Moffitt, Moore, Nelson,
Skarritt, Webb, Wilcox, Caddell, Doyon, Fortino, Gosling, Hassberger.
NAYS: None, (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, 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 85031 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on February 14, 1985
with the orginial 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, 1 have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
this 14th day of All, February 19 85
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I Yq11. O. ALLEN -
County Clerk/Register of Deeds