HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1985.12.12 - 11321December 12, 1985 Miscellaneous Resolution #85362
BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE - G. William Caddell, Chairperson
RE: CORPORATION COUNSEL - LEGAL FEES - MURRAY v OAKLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S
DEPT., ET AL.
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the Ideal Mutual Insurance Company was the County's police
professional carrier until December 15, 1980; and
WHEREAS, in December, 1984, Ideal Mutual Insurance Company went into
rehabilitation in the State of New York and was subsequently put into receiver-
ship by the Insurance Commissioner of that State; and
WHEREAS, Ideal has ceased to represent its insureds in pending law-
suits, including Murray v Oakland County Sheriff's Dept., et al.; and
WHEREAS, the firm of Booth, Patterson, Lee, Karlstrom & Steckling
continued its defense of this case by the direction of the Department of
Corporation Counsel; and
WHEREAS, this matter went to jury trial and a verdict of no cause
of action was obtained; and
WHEREAS, Booth, Patterson, Lee, Karlstrom & Steckling has submitted
a final billing for services rendered between September 25, 1985 and October 30,
1985; and
WHEREAS, Corporation Counsel finds the attorneys' fees and expenses
charged to be reasonable for services rendered and recommends payment in the
amount of $5,868.55.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Finance Committee finds
$5,868.55 available in the 1985 Contingency Fund Account to cover said cost.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners appropriates
$5,868.55 from the 1985 Contingency Account and transfers said amount to the
Corporation Counsel Division - Legal Expense Account as follows:
909-01-00-9900 Contingency
115-01-00-3456 Legal Expense
$(5,869)
5,869
-0.-
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I move the
adoption of the foregoing resolution.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
#8 5362 December 12, 1985
this 12th day of Dec -uver Impr
ALLEN
County Clerk/Register of Deeds
19 85
Moved by Caddell supported by Webb the resolution be adopted.
AYES: S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law, McConnell, McPherson, Moffitt, Moore, Nelson, Olsen,
Page, Perinoff, Pernick, Skarritt, Webb, Wilcox, Caddell, Calandro, Doyon, Fortino, Gosling,
Hobart, R. Kuhn. (22)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
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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 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meetin held on December 12, 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