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and requests that we sort of be part of this negotiation. In other words, let's limit it to <br />this and say we only have that much money, or this or that, so that's more often than <br />not the discussion that I remember but I do think it's an incredibly flawed process, <br />especially when you get a bunch of new Council people or folks with no experience <br />whatsoever. And I remember the first time I was part of this. I thought what in the <br />world am I doing, trying to make a decision on some of this stuff with no background at <br />all so I think it is something worth looking at anyway. Mr. Bess. <br />BESS: I was just going to suggest - There seems to be two situations <br />where you're going to go with "special counsel". One is professional competence <br />where the office goes outside thinking that it may need - <br />WURDEMAN: If we ever got into something like an anti-trust case. <br />BESS: Right. And then you'd have to get "special counsel" there and then <br />the other one, the conflict of interest. My suggestion is that the Corp Counsel should <br />have the power to decide whether or not there's conflict of interest but that there would <br />be the safeguard of Office of Disciplinary Counsel in the event that somebody <br />questioned whether or not you in fact, the guy really was in conflict of interest. It could <br />go to Office of Disciplinary Counsel and then, at least as far as the conflict of interest <br />kind of case, the Council would not be involved at all in that decision, whether to go <br />outside and get "special counsel" other than the budgetary process. <br />WURDEMAN: That would be ideal from my point. Yes. <br />BESS: I don't have your language in front of me, Richard, so I don't know <br />what you're suggesting as an amendment, but I don't know if, in this section, you want <br />to distinguish the conflict of interest issue from the professional competence issue. <br />WURDEMAN: I saw it as distinguishing between representing individuals and <br />representing the County. Representing the County would be something we would be <br />required to get permission for but we could do it your way just as well and probably <br />have the same result. <br />RAY: <br />HERKES: <br />Other comments? Ms. Herkes. <br />No, I have a later comment on another issue but not on this one. <br />RAY: Let's work internally on some language and see what we can come <br />up with as far as something to bring forward, okay? <br />IRVINE: I had one more comment. What about just under 5-2.3, it says the <br />Corporation Counsel may delegate any professional legal duties of his office to his <br />9 <br />