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June 9, 1983
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION
BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE, DR. G. WILLIAM CADDELL, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: LEGAL COUNSEL - JUDGE JAMES THORBURN
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Oakland County Circuit Court has requested that outside legal
counsel be provided to represent Judge James Thorburn in the matter of The
Fellowship of Christ Church, et. al. v James S. Thorburn, et. al., case No.
83-CU-0667-DT in the United States District Court, Eastern District, Southern
Division; and
WHEREAS Miscellaneous Resolution #8082, adopted July 21, 1977, provides
that outside legal counsel shall be employed only through the Office of Corpora-
tion Counsel and be approved by a majority vote of the members of the Board of
Commissioners; and
WHEREAS the legal expense for this case is estimated to be $5,000.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
hereby approves the hiring of outside legal counsel as approved by the office of
Corporation Counsel, to represent Judge James S. Thorburn in the matter of case
No. 83-CU-0667-DT, pursuant to the policy established in Miscellaneous Resolution
#8082.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Finance Committee recommends that an amount
not to exceed $5,000 be appropriated for this purpose; said amount available in the
1983 Contingency.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners appropriates $5,000
from the 1983 Contingency and transfers said funds to the 1983 Circuit Court - Legal
Expense line-item as follows:
990-02-00-9990 Contingency $(5,000)
311-05-00-3456 Legal Expense 5,000
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Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I move the adoption of
the foregoing resolution.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
this 10th day of
LYNN DiALLEN, County Clerk/Register of Dee
June 198 3
83158
Moved by Caddell supported by Olsen the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Hobart, Jackson, R. Kuhn, Law, McConnell, McDonald, McPherson,
Moffitt, Moore, Nelson, Olsen, Page, Perinoff, Price, Reweld, Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell,
Calandra, Doyon; Foley. (21)
NAYS: Fortino, Lanni, Pernick. (3)
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 #83158 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
• 9 at their meeting held on June +70',.1983
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