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Committee advances multiple settlement and contract items, sends four legal-indemnification requests to formal session
Summary
At a Jan. 23 Committee of the Whole meeting, council members moved a slate of settlement approvals, requests for legal representation and indemnification, and a one-year renewal for the city's state lobbying contract to the formal session with recommendations to approve.
Detroit ' At a Jan. 23 Committee of the Whole meeting, council members voted, without recorded objection, to send a series of settlement requests, legal-representation items and a contract renewal to the council's formal session with recommendations to approve.
The committee combined four related legal-representation items for Animal Care and Control staff (line items 5.1, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5) and moved them to formal with a recommendation to approve. The committee also moved several settlement requests for approval, including a $99,000 settlement in Lakisha Hines v. City of Detroit (line item 5.6) and a $32,500 settlement in Robbie and Shaniqua Daish v. City of Detroit (case no. 23-016105-nf, line item 5.7).
A separate motion sent line item 5.2 (legal representation and indemnification for building…
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