Mayanne Downs, Metropolis Legal professional on the Metropolis of Orlando, is likely one of the metropolis’s highest-paid staff.
Mayanne Downs working as Orlando Metropolis Legal professional attends to the authorized enterprise of the Metropolis and provides authorized recommendation in all Metropolis issues referred to her by Mayor Buddy Dyer and/or Metropolis Council or by the officers of the Metropolis relative to their duties.
The Orlando Metropolis Legal professional can also be liable for the prosecution and protection of civil actions introduced by or towards the Metropolis and gives authorized recommendation at Council conferences. The workplace additionally responds to requests from the Mayor, Council and metropolis employees to draft or evaluation contracts, ordinances and different authorized paperwork.
Per a current West Orlando Information public data request, Mayanne Downs earns a month-to-month retainer of $16,797.00, or $201,564.00 in retainer funds on an annualized foundation.
Information supplied by the Metropolis of Orlando included a 2012 Skilled Companies Settlement between the Metropolis of Orlando and Mayanne Downs, Metropolis Legal professional, though it was together with her earlier firm GrayRobinson. She not too long ago left that agency to start out her personal agency, however she stays Mayor Buddy Dyer’s Metropolis Legal professional. The Metropolis of Orlando didn’t present any up to date supplies on Downs’ pay within the current WON data request.
In line with the settlement, the Orlando Metropolis Legal professional’s duties shall embrace however not be restricted to the next:
- Function principal authorized advisor to the Mayor, Metropolis Council, and Chief Administrative Officer.
- Attend Metropolis Council conferences, agenda conferences, and associated briefings.
- Meet with Metropolis officers and Council members for consultations as wanted and be accessible to satisfy with the Mayor frequently as scheduled by the Mayor’s workplace.
- Monitor all litigation involving complaints by or towards the Metropolis and maintain the Mayor and Metropolis Council suggested on the progress of mentioned issues.
- Characterize the Metropolis in negotiations with third events.
- Characterize the Metropolis when essential at inter-governmental and inter-agency conferences.
- Plan, arrange, direct and evaluation the operations and actions of the Metropolis’s Legal professional’s Workplace, together with offering suggestions on division price range and personnel points and supervision of lawyer and non-attorney employees.
- Have interaction, oversee and coordinate personal attorneys dealing with work on behalf of the Metropolis.
Go to the Attorney’s Office web site for extra info. Is the Orlando Metropolis Legal professional’s wage value it for taxpayers? Check here for more salaries of Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer’s executive staff.
