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August 5, 1982
Miscellaneous Resolution # 82236
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 Civil Counsel and
approved by a majority vote of the members of the Board of Commissioners"; and
WHEREAS a race discrimination charge has been recently initiated against the
County by one of its former employees, seeking $130,000 in back pay and damages; and
WHEREAS it is necessary to immediately address and answer such charges and begin
to prepare for the litigation of a lawsuit; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Civil Counsel's office recommends retaining the
services of on outside legal counsel with specialized knowledge and expertise in employment
discrimination matters; and
WHEREAS the estimated cost of said legal counsel is $7,500.00,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
authorizes the office of Civil Counsel to retain said outside legal counsel at a cost not to
exceed $7,500,00,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that pursuant to Rule XI-C of this Board, the Finance
Committee finds $7,500,00 available in the Civil Counsel Salaries Regular Account and
that the Board of Commissioners appropriates $7,500,00 from the Civil Counsel Salaries
Regular Account and transfers said funds to the 1982 Civil Counsel - Professional Services
Line-item Budget as follows:
512-01-00-1001 Salaries Regular ($7,500,00)
512-01-00-2128 Professional Services 7,500,00
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Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I move the adoption of the
foregoing resolution,
#82236 . Augt,it 5, 1982
Moved by Caddell supported by Perinoff the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Calandra, DiGiovanni, Doyon, Fortino, Gosling, Hobart,
Lanni, McDonald, Moffitt, Moore, Olsen, Page, Patterson, Perinoff, Pernick, Peterson,
Price, Whitlock, Wilcox, Caddell, Cagney. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
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 #82236 adopted by the OaklandCounty Board of Commissoners.. .
at their meeting he d on August 5, 1982
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
this 5thday of jf ) August 1s82
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ALLEN
County Clerk/Register of Deeds