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Board members had no objection. <br />BOOK <br />ON MOTION by Commissioner,Bird, SECONDED by <br />Commissioner Scurlock, the Board unanimously <br />agreed to change the meeting time of the <br />Regular Meeting of November 27, 1985, to 10:30 <br />o'clock A.M. <br />REPORT ON MEETING RE MEDICAL EXAMINER <br />62 Fa�F <br />Attorney Vitunac informed the Board that he and OMB Director <br />Baird met with the Attorneys from the four county area last <br />Friday to discuss both the Medical Examiner and the Public <br />Defender. Not one of the four counties wanted to sign the <br />Medical Examiner's contract, which they all agreed was a bad <br />contract. It was pointed out that the staff at the state level <br />is substantially rewriting the Medical Examiner law to provide <br />the counties more rights re budgeting and bargaining, and it was <br />the considered opinion of everyone that we should just sit tight <br />and let the doctor stay where he wants to until the new laws <br />pass. No one wants to let the morgue at the college sit empty. <br />Commissioner Scurlock believed one of the reasons Dr. Walker <br />decided he would go to the junior college was because the <br />hospital decided they needed the space and asked him to move his <br />operation. Commissioner Scurlock wanted to be sure that the <br />Medical Examiner does have a place to function out of. <br />Attorney Vitunac did not know the particulars, but did know <br />that nobody even wants him at the junior college, and so by next <br />year we may be able to set up a building somewhere owned by the <br />counties, which would be made available to whoever the Medical <br />Examiner is. <br />In regard to the Public Defender's budget, Attorney Vitunac <br />reported that while we did finance his budget as requested, the <br />other three counties all said they would not do it. Various <br />alternatives were discussed, one being a recommendation that we <br />50 <br />