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Audit & Administration committee presses law department on outside counsel spending, tables $150,000 request
Summary
The Audit & Administration Committee questioned rising outside counsel bills and requested clearer invoices; the committee voted to table an additional $150,000 for outside counsel and scheduled follow-up in the Rules Committee. Multiple year-end budget and fund-transfer items were also approved.
Putnam County’s Audit & Administration Committee pressed the county law department Jan. 27 for clearer billing and justification of rising outside counsel costs and voted to defer action on an additional $150,000 funding request for outside legal services.
Committee members, led by several legislators, said outside-counsel spending exceeded the county attorney’s original outside-legal-services budget for 2024. The chair said the law department’s outside-counsel budget had been increased during the year and that overall outside-counsel spending of roughly $650,000 for the year exceeded the original $300,000 appropriation. Legislators requested…
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