HomeMy WebLinkAbout13 CITY ATTORNEY 02-07-94AGENDA
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DATE:
21, 1994
TO:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
HONORABLE MAYORAND CITY COUNCILMEMBERS
CITY ATTORNEY
CITY ATTORNEY
Effective February 1, 1994, I will revert from employee status.
as City Attorney to contract City Attorney status. As contract
City Attorney, I will no longer have any employee fringe benefits
at the close of January 31, 1994.
Rourke, Woodruff & Spradlin and I will continue to provide the
City with the same services as before and at the same fee schedule
as has been in effect for the past almost five years, $120 per hour
for partners of the firm and $110 per hour for associate attorneys,
for all services, inCluding attendance at all meetings, general
counsel work, litigation, etc. with the monthly retainer of $4,000
fully credited to the City upon all hourly billed fees.
We may in the future ask the Council to re-evaluate the fee
schedule, which is below the regular rate in Southern California
for such services, particularly considering the relinquishment of
all fringe benefits.
If I may be permitted to say so, all surveys and studies have
shown that I and the other lawyers of Rourke, Woodruff & Spradlin
serve the City extremely well and at an extremely competitive'cost
to the City and have done so for many years.
City Attorney
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DATE: APRIL 18, 1994 Inter- Com `1;$
TO: VALERIE WHITEMAN, CHIEF DEPUTY CITY CLERK 1 "1 �
FROM: CITY ATTORNEY �4
SUBJECT: CITY ATTORNEY EMPLOYMENT RESOLUTION
Resolution No. 92-155 (copy attached) sets forth the Tustin
fee arrangement through January 31, 1994.
From February 1, 1994 to the present the fee arrangement is
$120 per hour for partners and $110 per hour for associates for all
services with a $4, 000 retainer (paid at the beginning of each
month) which is fully credited upon the hourly billed fees as
prescribed in the memorandum received and filed by the City Council
on February 9, 1994 (copy attached) .
elf 4
J. S . ROURKE
City Attorney
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1 92-155
RESOLUTION NO.
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3 ' A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA, PRESCRIBING THE
4 EMPLOYMENT AND COMPENSATION OF THE CITY
ATTORNEY
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The City Council of the City of Tustin hereby resolves as
7 follows:
8 WHEREAS, the retainer and compensation of the City Attorney
for basic legal services has been prescribed by Minute Orders and
9 Resolutions of the City Council from time to time; and
101 WHEREAS, recent interpretations of the Public Employees
Retirement System ("PERS") Board and staff have created ambiguities
11 about the proper construction of city attorney compensation for
Public Employees Retirement System purposes; and
12 WHEREAS, for purposes of clarification, the City Council by
13 this Resolution restates the terms of the compensation of the City
Attorney for basic services .
14 NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Tustin,
15 California, hereby resolves as follows:
16 1. The monthly salary of the City Attorney for the
performance of basic services is Six Thousand Dollars ($6, 000) per
17 month.
18 2 . For the prescribed monthly salary, the City Attorney
shall continue to provide to the City each month services of
19 attendance at all regular meetings of the City Council and Planning
Commission and thirty-five (35) hours of basic legal services.
20 3 . Any and all legal services as may be required by the City
21 in addition to those specified above shall be billed to City at the
rate of One Hundred Twenty Dollars ($120) per hour.
22 4 . The City Council declares that the foregoing provisions
23 are the same arrangements which have been in existence and have
been understood by the City and the City Attorney at all times over
24 most of the past twenty years or more, with only the amounts having
been adjusted from time to time, primarily as necessary to reflect
25 inflation, and are restated in this Resolution to eliminate any
possible different understandings or interpretations of the Public
26 Employees Retirement System.
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Resolution No. 92-155
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3 PASSED AND ADOPTED, at a regular meeting of the City Council
4 for the City of Tustin on this 21st day of December , 1992 .
6
LESLIE ANNE PONTIOUS, Mayor
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8 ATTEST:
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E. WYNN, City Clerk
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13 RESOLUTION CERTIFICATION
14 STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
15 COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF TUSTIN
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17 RESOLUTION NO. 92-155
18 MARY E. WYNN, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City
19 Council of the City of Tustin, California, does hereby certify that
the whole number of the members of the City Council of the City of
20 Tustin is five; that the above and foregoing Resolution was passed
and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the
21 21st day of December , 19 92, by the following vote:
22 COUNCILPERSONS AYES: Pontious, Puckett, Saltarelli, Thomas
COUNCILPERSONS NOES: Potts
23 COUNCILPERSONS ABSTAINED: None
COUNCILPERSONS ABSENT: None
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25Y E. WYNN, City Clerk
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27 Published: NA
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