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OFFICE OF THi; CITY AT'1'URN'EY <br />OPINION NO. 73-4~Q <br />May 17, 1973 <br />SUBJECT: Reimbursement of expenses incurred by <br />Chairman of Manpower Area Redevelopment <br />Council. <br />REQUES~i'ED BY: Office of the Mayor <br />OPINION BY: James A. Withers, City Attorney <br />Richard E. Lay, Deputy City Attorney <br />QUESTION: May an individual designated by the Mayor <br />to serve as his representative as Criairulan <br />of the Manpower Area Planning Council be <br />reimbursed fo.r_ necessary expenditures in- <br />curred in the performance of duties incident <br />to this position, such as the attenda~e of <br />conferences held by the Cooperative Area <br />Manpower Planning System, without the <br />necessity of further councilmanic authori- <br />zation? <br />ANSWER: Yes. <br />ANALYS :I S <br />By previous resolutions the City Council has approved <br />the City of Santa. Ana's participation in the federal program <br />known as the Cooperative Area Manpower Planning System (CAMPS), <br />a program established to promote the cooperative planning and <br />exec}ition of manpower training and service programs carried <br />out by the various federal, state, and local agencies. This <br />councilmanic approval of the city's participation in CAMPS is <br />in effect the excr.cise of the council's judgment that such <br />participation constitutes a method of accomplishing a legitimate <br />public purpose for. w3.z ich municipal funds may be lawfu]_ly dis- <br />bursed. The question of whether the accomplishment of a <br />specific purpo~sc ronsti_tutes a public purpose and the method <br />by which such purpose is to be accomplished rests in the <br />judgment of the City Council; the courts will not intervene <br />unless such exercise of discretion i.s :;Yiown to have boon <br />unquestionably abused. City of Rosevi_llo v. Tulley (192) <br />131 P2d 395. <br />76 <br />