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 City’s 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.