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7/27/2019 Resolutionforresignation(s)InOfficeofCorpCounsel100813am
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INTRODUCED BY COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL
Minority Leader Larry Deutsch 14 October 2013
WHEREAS, the public and members of Court of Common Council have during several recent months
asked for information and opinion from the Office of Corporation Counsel to assist in forming city policy
in numerous areas, and
WHEREAS, responses from the Office, particularly regarding those items referred within the Office to
Deputy Counsel John van Norden, have repeatedly been unreturned, tardy, incomplete, inaccurate,
evasive, or discourteous, and
WHEREAS, his initial practice of providing legal opinion was wrongly begun while state license to do so
was pending, and
WHEREAS, recent legitimate inquiries by the Citys Internal Audit Commission and Court of Common
Council have been challenged as invalid rather than returned with appropriate opinions or references to
other sources, therefore be it
RESOLVED, that Deputy Counsel van Norden be now removed from staff of the Office of Corporation
Counsel.