HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1992.03.05 - 20629• March 5, 1992
MISC. RESOLUTION 92025
BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE, G. WILLIAM CADDELL, CHAIRMAN
RE: CLAIMS REVIEW COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION TO INCREASE OUTSIDE
COUNSEL FEES
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS:
MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
WHEREAS, the law firms of Dise & Gurewitz, Plunkett &
Cooney, and Vandeveer Garzia have effectively represented Oakland
County in litigation claims since 1986; and
WHEREAS, the County has been compensating these firms at
an hourly rate of $75.00, while other outside legal counsel for the
County has been recompensed at a significantly higher compensation;
and
WHEREAS, these law firms have requested that the Board of
Commissioners review the established hourly legal fee rate, and
the Claims Review Committee has recommended an increase in the
present rate of $75 to a new rate of $85 per hour, for all work
done after March 1, 1992.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County
Board of Commissioners does hereby approve an increase of $10 per
hour for the law firms of Vanderveer Garzia, Plunkett & Cooney, and
Dise & Gurewitz for an hourly legal service fee of $85.00 per hour,
for all work done after March 1, 1992.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I move
the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
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4.11ftlY APPROVE THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION
Resolution # g2n25 March' 5, 1992
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Moved by Caddell supported by McConnell the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Crake, Huntoon, Jensen, Johnson, Law, McConnell, McCulloch, Millard,
Moffitt, Obrecht, Olsen, Palmer, Pappageorge, Schmid, Skarritt, Wolf, Bishop, Caddell.
(18)
NAYS: Ferrens, Krause, McPherson, Oaks, Pernick, Price, Serra, Aaron. (8)
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, do hereby certify that the foregoing
resolution is a true and accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County
.Board of Commissioners on March 5, 199J_
with the original record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County
of Oakland at Pontiac, Michigan this 5th day or) MARCH 1992
Lynnei(0. Allen, County derk