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FINANCE COMMITTEE
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION # 85194 June 27, 1935
BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE, DR. G. WILLIAM CADDELL, CHAIRMAN
IN RE: DRAIN COMMISSIONER-LEGAL EXPENSE/ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION
EMPLOYEES' SEPARATION LAWSUITS
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Miscellaneous Resolution 1182292, 9/21/82; Miscellaneous Resolution
1182366, 12/2/82; Miscellaneous Resolution 1183301, 11/3/83; and Miscellaneous
Resolution 1184328, 12/13/84, authorized outside legal counsel to defend the County
in two employee separation suits and appropriated funds for outside counsel, and
WHEREAS expenses for said two cases have exceeded the initial appropriations
and require supplemental funding; and
WHEREAS in January, 1985 one suit was concluded by a jury verdict against
the employee of no cause of action on all counts, and no appeal has been taken,
and
WHEREAS an interlocutory appeal is now pending in the Michigan Court of
Appeals in the other suit, and
WHEREAS additional costs are approximately $42,587 and will require an
additional appropriation; and
WHEREAS Corporation Counsel finds the estimated legal fees reasonable and
recommends an appropriation in the amount of $42,587
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that, pursuant to Rule XI-C of this Board, the
Finance Committee finds $42,587, the additional cost now required, available in
the 1985 Contingency Account.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners appropriates $42,587
from the 1985 Contingency Account and transfers said amount to the 1985 Drain
Commissioner-Legal Expense line-item as follows:
909-01-00-9900 Contingency ($42,587)
611-01-00-3456 Legal Expense 42,587
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that if expenses exceed this appropriation, then the
Drain Commissioner shall come back before the Finance Committee requesting these
funds.
Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I move the adoption of
the foregoing resolution.
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WAY APPROVE TH7
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Nillett M14
Schedule I
DRAIN COMMISSIONER
LEGAL EXPENSES
EMPLOYEES SEPARATION LAWSUITS
Appropriations to Date
Resolution # Date Appropriation
82292 9/21/82 $ 7,500
82366 12/2/82 25,000
83301 11/3/83 32,500
84328 12/13/84 30,000
$95,000
this 27th day of June 19 85
ALLEN
County Clerk/Register of Deeds
#85194 June 27, 1985
Moved by Caddell supported by Moffitt the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell, Calandro, Doyon, Fortino, Gosling, Hassberger,
Hobart, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law -, McConnell, McPherson, Moffitt, Moore, Nelson,
Olsen, Perinoff, Pernick, Rewold, Skarritt, Webb. (24)
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 the attached
Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on June 27, 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, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan