HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1983.06.09 - 11569MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION # 83159 June 9, 1983
BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE, DR. G. WILLIAM CADDELL, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: OUTSIDE LEGAL COUNSEL - EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Miscellaneous Resolution #8082 "Legal Counsel for Oakland County"
requires "outside counsel shall be employed only through the office of Corporation
Counsel and approved by a majority vote of the members of the Board of Commis-
sioners"; and
WHEREAS Miscellaneous Resolution #82236 of August 5, 1982 appropriated
$7,500 to retain outside legal counsel to defend the County in a race discrim-
ination suit; and
WHEREAS no payments were made from this allocation in 1982 and said amount
was returned to the General Fund as surplus; and
WHEREAS bills are being received for this service in 1983 and requires an
appropriation to cover this expense.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that pursuant to Rule XI-C of this Board, the
Finance Committee finds $7,500 available in the 1983 Contingency Account for this
purpose.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners appropriates $7,500
from the 1983 Contingency Account and transfers said amount to the 1983 Corporation
Counsel Budget - Legal Expense Account as follows:
990-02700-9990 Contingency $(7,500)
115-01-00-3456 Legal Expense 7,500
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Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I move the adoption of
the foregoing resolution.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
this , lOth d ay o f June
VAIN, County Clerk/Register of Dee
#83159
Moved by Caddell supported by Rewold the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Gosling, Hobart, Jackson, R. Kuhn, Lanni, Law, McConnell, McDonald,
McPherson, Moffitt, Nelson, Olsen, Page, Perinoff, Pernick, Rewold, Wilcox, Aaron,
Caddell, Calandro, Doyon, Foley, Fortino. (23)
NAYS: Moore. (1)
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 #83159 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on June 141983
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
Deputy Clerk