Res No 070-11-13384RESOLUTION No. 70-11-13384
A resolution of the Mayor and the City Commission of the City of South
Miami, Florida, authorizing the compensation for legal services and expenses
to be paid to the acting city attorney and providing an effective date.
WHEREAS, the City Attorney for the City of South Miami resigned on or about March
1, 2011; and,
WHEREAS, the City of South Miami is in the process selecting a Permanent City
Attorney; and,
WHEREAS, the City of South Miami has appointed Thomas F. Pepe, Esquire, as the
Acting City Attorney.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI, FLORIDA:
Section 1. The City Manager is hereby instructed to pay the Acting City Attorney,
Thomas F. Pepe, for his legal services in equal monthly payments of sixteen thousand seven
hundred ($16,700.00) dollars and eighty (80 %) percent shall be paid from account no. 001-
1500 -514 -3120 entitled "PROFESSIONAL LEGAL SERVICE COST" with a current balance
of $80,160 and twenty (20 %) percent shall be paid from account no. 610 -1110 -564 -3120
entitled "CRA PROFESSIONAL SERVICES - LEGAL" with a current balance of $24,960.
Section 2. The Acting City Attorney shall perform the same functions as the City's
prior City Attonrey.
Section 3. The Acting City Attorney shall also perform the same function as the
Assistant City Attonrey who acted as the City's Labor Attorney. The City Manager is hereby
instructed to pay the Acting City Attorney, for his legal services as Labor Attorney for the City,
the sum of fifty thousand ($50,000.00) dollars and eighty (80 %) percent shall be paid from
account no. 001 - 1500 -514 -3120 entitled "CONSULTING- LABOR". with a current balance of
$30,481.70 and twenty (20 %) percent shall be paid from account no. 610 - 1110 -564 -3120
entitled "CRA PROFESSIONAL SERVICES - LEGAL" with a current balance of $24,960; to
be used by him to pay himself or to be used by him to hire outside counsel to perform the duties
required of a Labor Attorney for the City.
Section 4. The City Manager is hereby instructed to reimbuse the Acting City Attorney
for expenses associated with the legal business of the City. These reimbusable expenses shall
not include those expenses associated with the rurming the Acting City Attonrey's office such
as rent, normal secretarial services and telephones. These funds shall be paid from account no
001 - 1500 -514 -3410 which has been budgeted as "LITIGATION -SPC PRJ & COST ".
Section 5. This resolution shall take effect nun pro tune from the date of the appoint of
Res. No. 70 -11 -13384
the Acting City Attorney on March 15, 2011.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 19th, day of April 2011.
ATTEST:
TY CLERK
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APPROVED:
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MAYO
COMMISSION VOTE: 4 -0
Mayor Stoddard:
Yea
Vice Mayor Newman:
Yea
Commissioner Beasley:
Yea
Commissioner Palmer:
absent
Commissioner Harris:
Yea