Operating and CIP Budget Fiscal Year 2015-16

OUTSIDE LEGAL SERVICES (SPECIAL COUNSEL)

For certain kinds of specialized or time-intense legal work that would impact other responsibilities of the City Attorney's Office, the City Attorney engages special legal counsel.

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Legal costs for the general liability fund are payments made to outside counsel up to the city's deductible of $100,000 per claim. Claims and litigation are unpredictable and represent the major variable in projecting legal costs.

In the Housing Mitigation Fund, legal costs are being incurred to pursue violations of City's Below Market Rate housing program restrictions. The amounts recovered and the value of the units retained through legal action is anticipated to exceed the legal costs incurred.

Total costs for all outside legal services (“special counsel”) in the budget and in recent years are shown in the following table:

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14-15 Year End Projection

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Fund

Description

Actual

Actual

Adopted

General Fund

Special Counsel

214,745 89,303

19,985 182,646

20,000 289,100

77,250

General Liability

Claims Legal Services

373,636

CIP Projects

Special Counsel Special Counsel

81,560 42,917

85,008 83,928

76,746 171,875

110,000 200,000

Housing Mitigation Fund Successor Agency

Special Counsel

8,391

26,452 398,019

85,182

135,000 895,886

TOTAL

436,916

642,903

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