GREAT COST (updated)

Legal bills for the Town of Ruston are large and could be dramatically larger soon. Ruston WA a town of 700 approximately now employs four law firms. Wow! I have tried to stay away from lawyer names as the Town Council is responsible for these large sums and the barristers merely do their bidding.
The Town pays or has paid $60 thousand dollars a year for a Town Attorney. All of the following charges are in addition to in house legal charges. The following were obtained through a PRR (Public Records Request) and are not necessarily in any order. It would take a huge amount of time and effort to show all pages. Judgments are not included.

Fabre v. Town of Ruston June 2008 through Jun 2010
$23 thousand and $468 dollars and .05 cents ($23,468.05). Still ongoing.

Fabre v. Town of Ruston July 2008 through December 2008
$6 thousand and $713 dollars and .80 cents ($6,783.14).

Boundary Review September 2010 through December 2010
$3 thousand $590 dollars ($3,590.00)

Commencement March through April 2009
$353 dollars ($353).

Whoa. Just realized I did not go far enough back and am missing the Commencement lawsuit referred to as the 'Ballet lawsuit' where they tried to evict the Commencement from the Mary Joyce center to hold ballet classes. The judge ruled for the Commencement which held a 500 year lease on the premises and the Town had to pay costs for both sides.

Baumgardner March 2009
$692 dollars.

Huitt-Zollars February through June 2010.
$1,455 dollars ($1,455.00)

Leider/Point Ruston March through June 2009
$5 thousand 407 dollars ($5,407.00)

Liability Insurance July 2009
$1 thousand 949 dollars ($1,949.00)
Compensation for increase in liability insurance coverage limits.

AWC RMSA assessment for 2011
$45 thousand 482 dollars ($45,482.00)
"As you review your enclosed 2011 assessments, please remember that your rates reflect $10 million in liability coverage."
Formerly was $5 million. Wonder why they doubled it?

Please leave comment if I missed any or corrections or meet at next Regular Council meeting May 2. Clue read next post Fabre claim.

Next Fabre claim amended.