HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1980.08.14 - 11814MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION 9,503 AUGUST 14, 1980
BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE, DENNIS MURPHY, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: RETENTION OF OUTSIDE LEGAL COUNSEL FOR JOHN DOWSETT ANDREW YANG
AND R. TRAITEL
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners by Miscellaneous
Resolution #8082 requires that outside legal counsel shall be employed only
through the office of Civil Counsel and approved by a majority vote of the
Members of the Board of Commissioners; and
WHEREAS certain staff members of the Probate Court found it necessary to
retain counsel to determine whether they, or any of them, were involved in the
alleged intimidation of certain witnesses who were to testify for the prose-
cution in an incident involving a County Employee at County expense; and
WHEREAS prior to employment of counsel, civil counsel determined that
these employees could not be represented by outside counsel; and
WHEREAS based upon the immediacy for the need of counsel, the seriousness
of the charges, and the fact that there was no indication that any alleged
actions were not within the scope of employment, the court authorized em-
ployment of counsel for purposes of representing the Court employees; and
WHEREAS the Court has requested the County to pay the attached sta
for $1,260.00 for services rendered.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
approves payment to outside counsel hired to represent these employees, such
payment to be charged against the Professional Services line-item in the Probate-
Juvenile Court budget.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that pursuant to Rule XI-C of this Board, the Finance
Committee finds $1,260.00 available in the 1980 Contingent Fund to cover said
cost, and that the Board of Commissioners appropriates said funds to the 1980
Probate -Juvenile C -)wf -Professional services line -item from the 1980 Contingent
Fund as follows:
10100-990-02-00-9990 - Cbntingent Fund
10100-342-01-00-2128 - Professional Services
$(1,260)
1,260
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Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I move the adoption
of the foregoing resolution.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
#9503 August 14, 1980
Moved by Murphy supported by Peterson the resolution be adopted.
Discussion followed.
Moved by Perinoff supported by Moore the resolution be amended in the BE IT FURTHER
RESOLVED paragraph by striking "Contingent Fund" and inserting "Professional Services
line-item".
Vote on amendment:
A sufficient majority not having voted therefor, the amendment failed.
Vote on resolution:
AYES: Perinoff, Pernick, Peterson, Price, Roth, Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell, DiGiovanni,
Dunaskiss, Fortino, Gabler, Gorsline, Hobart, Kasper, Kelly, McDonald, Moffitt,
Montante, Moxley, Murphy, Page, Patterson. (23)
NAYS: Doyon, Moore. (2)
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 #9503 adopted by the Oakland County Board of
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Commissioners at their meeting held on August 14, 1980
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
14th August 80
Lynn D. Allen......................Clerk
By.................................Deputy Clerk