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City attorney outlines office staffing, property acquisitions and limited outside-lawyer spending
Summary
The city attorney briefed the finance committee on the Office of the City Attorney’s workload, staff structure, recent property acquisitions for University Boulevard East and relatively low outside counsel spending compared with peer cities.
The city attorney told the Tuscaloosa City Council Finance Committee that the Office of the City Attorney (OCA) has handled an extensive caseload in the last year and currently relies primarily on in-house attorneys and legal assistants, with limited use of outside counsel.
The city attorney said OCA drafted ‘‘over a thousand resolutions and ordinances,’’ handled roughly 600 contracts and closed about 1,700 internal files over the past year. The office also prosecuted about 15,000 cases, plus about 108 circuit court matters that proceeded to jury appeal, the attorney said.
The city attorney reviewed the OCA staffing…
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