Serna v. Pima County’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Where the contract in question is a unitary one for the doing of a particular and specified act, but its performance may extend beyond the term of the officers making it, if it appears that the contract was made in good faith and in the public interest it is not void because it will not be completed during the term of those officers. If, on the other hand, the contract is for the performance of personal or professional services for the employing officers, their successors must be allowed to choose for themselves those persons on whose honesty, skill and ability they must rely.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 250 F. Supp. 2d 1200 - Greenawalt v. Sun City West Fire District

2. “While that may be true, we have our doubts. The citizens of our state have lived with this rule for 80 years. We have not been perfectly governed but there is little to suggest that any failures result from the inability of public officers to negotiate “golden parachutes” to protect them against the political vicissitudes of life. If, however, evidence can be marshalled to demonstrate the political cost of the [successor board excep tion], the legislature would surely change it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 250 F. Supp. 2d 1200 - Greenawalt v. Sun City West Fire District