Functional Analysis City Attorney Position Solano County Grand Jury 2017-2018

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• CO1
  accessibility and continuity impartiality has an intimate and expanding has access to expertise and knowledge
• CO2
  knowledge of the city, its of other municipalities, histories and employees and citizens/public responses is readily accessible with no skilled in or has access to specialty thought of an hourly fee areas such as water rights, land use, regulatory issues, and California contributes leadership skills Environmental Quality Act can help the organization develop can be cost effective as only services and manage future risk
• CO3
  rendered are chargeable has a unique opportunity to build clinical approach to risk management community trust
• CO4
  is skilled at providing immediate cost as a municipal employee has a set
• CO5
  effective answers hour work day schedule which provides the budget with a fixed as a consultant there are no employee benefits and terminating a contract cost associated with salary and benefits usually involves no monetary penalties in an increasingly complicated legal environment, a generalist has limits in specialty areas of the law This list provides a cautionary tale that when a city is analyzing the system that is appropriate for its method of governance, it must understand that both in-house and outsourced legal counsel provide value with merits and drawbacks of their own. COURTESY COPIES City of Benicia Mayor City of Dixon Mayor City of Fairfield Mayor City of Rio Vista Mayor City of Suisun City Mayor City of Vacaville Mayor City of Vallejo Mayor 4 Institutional knowledge is gained by organizations translating historical data into useful knowledge and wisdom. City Manager of Benicia City Manager of Dixon City Manager of Fairfield City Manager of Rio Vista City Manager of Suisun City City Manager of Vacaville City Manager of Vallejo This is an informational report. No response is required