HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1984.02.09 - 16303February 9, 1984
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #84007
BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE, DR. G. WILLIAM CADDELL, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION - LEGAL COUNSEL - JUDGE JAMES THORBURN
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mt. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Miscellaneous Resolution #83158 authorized the hiring of
outside legal counsel for an amount not to exceed $5,000 to represent
Judge James Thorburn in the matter of The Fellowship of Christ Church,
et. al. vs. James S. Thorburn, et. al., case NO. 83-CV-0667-DT in the
United States District Court, Eastern District, Southern Division; and
WHEREAS the matter was dismissed in favor of Judge Thorburn; and
WHEREAS the plaintiffs have appealed the ruling; and
WHEREAS the legal expense for the defense of the appeal in this case
is estimated to be 7 ,000; and
WHEREAS Miscellaneous Resolution #8082, adopted July 21, 1977, pro-
vides that outside legal counsel shall be employed only through the Office
of Corporation Counsel and be approved by a majority vote of the members of
the Board of Commissioners.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commis-
sioners hereby approves the hiring of outside legal counsel as approved by
the office of Corporation Counsel, to represent Judge James S. Thorburn in
the appeal of case NO. 83-CV-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 $7,000 be appropriated for this purpose; said amount
available in the 1984 Contingency Account.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners appropriates
$ 7,000 from the 1984 Contingency Account and transfers said funds to the
1984 Circuit Court - Legal Expense line-item as follows:
909-01-00-9900 Contingency
311-05-00-3456 Legal Expense
$( 7,000)
7,000
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4r. Chairperson, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I move the adoption
of the foregoing resolution.
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County Clerk/Register of Deeds
#84007 February 9, 1984
Moved by Caddell supported by Richard Kuhn the resolution be adopted.
AYES: McConnell, McDonald, Moffitt, Moore, Nelson, Olsen, Page, Perinoff,
Pernick, Rewold, Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell, Calandro, Doyon, Foley, Fortino, Gosling,
Hobart, Jackson, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law. (24)
NAYS: McPherson. (1)
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 # 84007 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on February 9, 1984
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