SEQUIM — The City Council put the idea of hiring a full-time city attorney on the back burner Wednesday during a work session.
“It would just about double our costs,” City Manager Bill Elliott said.
Hiring a full-time city attorney would cost about $127,000 annually to staff an office and bring another attorney on-board to prosecute the city’s misdemeanor traffic and criminal cases, he said.
Last year, the city spent about $22,000 for legal advice from Craig Ritchie, who works at the contract rate of $75 an hour.
The city spent an additional $40,000 to pay Clallam County to prosecute cases.
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