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METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO 2009 BUDGET LAW 30000 LAW 2007 2008 2009 40 40 40 310 Executive Division 8 8 8 311 Executive Office 3 3 3 312 Clerical Section 5 5 5 320 Real Estate/General Administration Division 12 12 12 330 General Litigation Division 4 4 4 340 Contract and Finance Division 4 4 3 360 Environmental Issues Division 8 5 5 370 Employment and Claims Division 4 7 8 321 Administrative Section 1 1 1 332 Litigation Section 4 4 4 342 Contract and Finance Section 4 4 3 361 Administrative Section 1 1 1 372 Employment Section 4 7 5 323 Real Estate-General Administration Section 8 8 8 362 Environmental Issues Section 4 4 4 373 Claims Section 0 0 3 324 Real Estate Asset Management Section 3 3 3 363 Claims Section 3 0 0 214 214
METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO 2009 BUDGET LAW 2009 BUDGET NARRATIVE The mission of the Law Department is to provide cost-effective counsel, representation, litigation, and real estate administration services for the District. The Department’s primary responsibilities include: • Provide counsel to the Board of Commissioners, Executive Director, and department heads; • Work with other MWRDGC departments to enforce/litigate environmental ordinances to ensure the dischargers within the District’s jurisdiction comply with federal and state pollution control laws; • Work with the USEPA, IEPA, and District staff to ensure that the District complies with legal aspects of regulations governing discharges from District plants to waterways; • Represent the District in all litigation at the trial and appellate levels in state and federal courts; • Represent the District before administrative agencies; • Provide for the administration of MWRDGC real estate; • Investigate property damage and personal injury claims and process Workers’ Compensation cases; • Manage legal aspects of personnel matters and litigation before the Civil Service Board and other tribunals. The 2009 appropriation request for the Law Department is $8,196,000 an increase of $226,300 or 2.8 percent from 2008. Staffing requirements for the Department are 40 positions, the same as 2008. Significant features of this year’s budget are: • Real estate lease and easement income is estimated to be $10.5 million in 2009; • The hiring of outside counsel to assist in the litigation of the Federal Consent Decree and the Illinois Pollution Control Board hearings to establish waterway standards; • In support of the District’s standard for geographic information system (GIS), consulting services will be solicited to address GIS needs for real estate management; • An increased utilization of technology in the form of electronic document management for forms, filings and presentations. Accomplishments during 2008 were: • The Law Department continues to implement changes in its leasing statute in an effort to maximize rental income. The focus of the changes are to give the District more flexibility in leasing lands with development impediments and in leasing lands located in Fulton County; In addition, action is taken to protect legal rights to all its real estate; • The Law Department continues to assist in the formation of a county-wide Stormwater Management plan with related ordinances to implement the authority granted to the District by the Illinois General Assembly in November of 2004; • The Law Department continues to represent the District in personnel matters before administrative agencies, state courts and federal tribunals. Following one contested federal jury trial, the Court of Appeals upheld a significant decision in the District’s favor; • The Law Department developed a “Litigation Hold” procedure to designate documents that are important in contested cases, and it has successfully defended legal challenges to its construction contracts; • The Environmental Division continues its support in obtaining operating permits for the District’s treatment plants from the IEPA while overseeing compliance with the Federal Clean Air Act and Clean <strong>Water</strong> Act and it has opposed permits issued to entities that contribute to the pollution of Lake Michigan. The Department’s goals and initiatives for 2009 include the following: 1. Protect the District, its officers, and employees against lawsuits when sued and to resolve matters prior to litigation. Employment-related matters continued to consume a significant amount of Law Department’s resources. Several employment cases were successfully litigated to judgment or dismissal in the state and federal courts. In 2009, the Law Department will continue to provide guidance to various District departments in connection with personnel questions relating to benefits and terms and conditions of employment, drafting or assisting in drafting of guidelines and directives, while routinely handling employment issues before the Civil Service Board and local, state, and federal agencies, as well as state and federal courts. The Claims and Environmental Division, like all Law Department Divisions, attempts to negotiate settlements of cases before litigating them. In representing the District before the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission on cases filed by District employees, the Division strives to be fair to employees while minimizing the expense to the District. In 2009, the Division will continue to work with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to preserve the current level of diversion of Lake Michigan water. In 2009, all divisions of the Law Department will continue to pursue settlement negotiations with litigants where appropriate and pursue aggressive motion practice in order to dispose of litigation at the earliest possible stage. 2. Facilitate enforcement of laws and ordinances through legal remedies. In 2009, the Environmental Division will continue to focus its attention on working with other District departments to successfully obtain operating permits for the District’s water reclamation plants from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA), while overseeing District compliance with the Federal Clean Air and Clean <strong>Water</strong> Acts. This Division also 215 215
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