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Committee approves $99,000 increase to outside labor counsel agreement
Summary
The committee approved a $99,000 increase to the city's legal services agreement for outside labor counsel to cover ongoing labor arbitration and litigation work, following a presentation from the labor director describing substantial recent litigation and contract work.
The committee approved a request to increase the legal-services contract for outside labor counsel by $99,000 after the city's labor director described ongoing high-cost litigation and contract work that exhausted the annual contracted amount.
The increase matters because outside counsel covers protracted labor arbitration and litigation that the city said has required more hours than the current contract estimate.
Wendell Olfatti, the city's labor director, told the committee the city had "significant high-profile cases" including litigation…
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