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County counsel seeks extra attorney amid rising legal workload; administration recommends partial expansion
Summary
Benton County Counsel requested expansion of the office from 1.5 to 4.0 FTE (two new attorneys and a full-time legal assistant) to address higher workloads tied to health clinics, procurement, service districts and labor relations; administration recommended a smaller expansion to 3.0 FTE with a $661,000 policy package.
County Counsel Vance Crony told the budget committee the county’s legal workload has increased significantly since he joined the office and requested additional staff to reduce reliance on outside counsel.
Crony said the county counsel office remained at about 1.5 full-time-equivalent staff while county programs and responsibilities expanded: public-health clinics and a health center network, consolidated procurement, nine service districts, an RV park with landlord–tenant questions, emergency…
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