HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1983.06.23 - 11579RESOLUTION NO 83155
June 9, 1983
RE: CREATE ONE (1) ASSISTANT CIVIL COUNSEL I
BY: PERSONNEL COMMITTEE
TO: THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
MR. CHAIRPERSON, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
WHEREAS, the Office of Corporation Counsel is responsible to
represent the County, its boards, departments and officials in all
civil matters, in the federal, state and local courts as well as
all tribunals incluidng Mental Health Hearings, Personnel Appeal
Board Hearings, and Tax Tribunal Hearings; and
WHEREAS, this and other legal activity has resulted in an
increase in workload over the past years; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners as a part of their 1983
budget actions deleted a First Assistant Civil Counsel position,
reducing the number of attorneys available to represent the county
In civil and other -legal matters; and
WHEREAS, the department has experienced an 18% increase in
the number of Mental Health Hearings for 1982 over 1981 and an
expansion of hearing time and hearing days requiring more involve
ment from Corporation Counsel i.?]. the areas of case preparation and
legal research; and
WHEREAS, the department has undertaken a number of new functions
including the preparation of Bond Return Orders (1982), involvement
In the Oakland County Solid Waste Management Plan as provided by
Act 641 and recently, more complex litigation between the County of
Oakland and the U.S. Department of Labor over $7,000,000 in disallowed
and questionable costs under the CETA program; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners on March 31, 1983
(Resolution 83061) authorized the Office of Corporation Counsel
to contract with the Drain Office for attorney services, subject to
the approval of the Drain Commissioner, for the use of two-fifths
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of the time of an engineering employee who is a licensed attorney
for a period of three months, which time shall expire on June 30,
1983, in an amount not to exceed $4,000.00; and
WHEREAS, in order for the Office of Corporation Counsel to
absorb these additional duties and expanded workload, it is
necessary that an additional full—time attorney position be
created to meet these demands..
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that one (1) Assistant Civil
Counsel I position be created in the Department of Corporation
Counsel.
MR. CHAIRPERSON, on behalf of the Personnel Committee, I
move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
PERSONNEL COMMITTEE
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flohh J. McDonald, Chairperson
HEREBY APPROVE THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION
FISCAL NOTE
BY FINANCE COMMITTEE, DR. G. WILLIAM CADDELL, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #83155 - CREATE ONE (1) ASSISTANT CIVIL
COUNSEL I POSITION
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to Rule XI-C of this Board, the Finance Committee has re-
viewed Miscellaneous Resolution #83155 and finds the following:
1) Effective June 27, 1983, one (1) Assistant Civil Counsel I
position be created in the Office of Corporation Counsel.
2) That the cost of said position for the remainder of 1983,
June 27 through December 31 is $18,342, said funds available
in the 1983 Contingency Account.
3) That the Board of Commissioners appropriates $18,342 from the
1983 Contingency Account and transfers said amount to the 1983
Corporation Counsel Budget as follows:
990-02-00-9990 Contingency $(18,342)
115-01-00-1001 Salaries
115-01-00-2070 Fringe Benefits
115-01-00-5998 Capital Outlay
12,669
4,561
1,112
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FINANCE COMMITTEE
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Cost For One (1) Additional
Assistant Civil Counsel
Miscellaneous Resolution #83155
1983 Cost for Remainder
Annual of 1983
Salary Cost Per June 27-December 31
Cost Pay Period 13.5 Pays
Salary $24,399 (1) $ 938.42 $12,669
Fringe Benefits
(36%) 8784 337.85 4,561
Total $33,183 $1,276.27 $17,230
Capital Outlay 1,112
Total $18,342
(1) 1st Year Step
COST OF ATTORNEY I:
SALARY (First Year Step):
FRINGE BENEFITS (at 36%)
$2 4,3 99
8,78 3
SUB TOTAL $33,182
CAPITAL OUTLAY:
Desk: $481
Bookcase $206
Credenza $425
SUB TOTAL $ 1,112
TOTAL $34,294
NOTE:
* Books come from library
* Telephone installation & moving costs will be reimbursed
* Office space is available
* Money exists for increased printing costs
#83155 June 23, 1983
Moved by McDonald supported by Foley the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Moore, Nelson, Olsen, Perinoff, Price, Rewold, Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell,
Calandro, Doyon, Foley, Geary, Gosling, Hobart, Jackson, McDonald, McPherson, Moffitt. (19)
NAYS: Pernick, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni. (4)
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 # 83155 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on June 23, 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
this 23rd day of June 198 3
LYNN D/ ALLEN, County Clerk/Register of De.-i