City Attorney seeks $1.5 million more for Hyperion spill outside counsel
The added money would raise the outside law firm's contract ceiling to $7.45 million, paid from Sanitation special funds.
The City Attorney asks the Council to add $1.5 million to a contract with law firm Beveridge & Diamond, bringing the total to $7.45 million, for defense of lawsuits over the July 11, 2021 flooding at the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant. The Bureau of Sanitation would pay from special funds, and the office asks for private discussion before Budget and Finance and the Council.
What happens next
Closed session before the Budget and Finance Committee and City Council
Named in this record
- Beveridge & Diamond PC
- Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant 2
- Los Angeles City Attorney 87
- Hydee Feldstein Soto 89
- Bureau of Sanitation 17
- West Basin Municipal Water District
- Los Angeles City Council 249
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Hydee Feldstein Soto
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