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City attorney outlines risk-management costs, building needs and consent-decree work on sewer system
Summary
City Attorney Drew Martin described the structure of the city attorney’s office, said risk-management and state tort funds are large line items in the legal budget, described an unusable office building, and said the office is working with federal regulators and Jackson Water on the sewer consent decree.
City Attorney Drew Martin briefed the council on his office’s budget and operations, highlighting risk-management costs and the city’s role in ongoing sewer and water consent-decree discussions.
Martin said the city attorney’s office includes risk management, prosecution, transactions and litigation divisions and that risk-management items inflate the office budget because they include workers’ compensation and other insurance costs over which the legal office has little discretion. He identified major…
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