housing authority); id. ("An Oregon public body may not enter a contract for governmental functions extending beyond its own term of office.”); Valvano v. Bd. of Chosen Freeholders of Union Cnty., 75 N.J.Super. 448, 183 A.2d 450, 454 (1962) (stating that a county board’s "eleventh-hour employment contract on the eve of a new administration” circumscribed the successor county board of its discretionary powers, "which powers should have been transmitted unimpaired to the newly-constituted board”); id. (“Public policy demands the utmost good faith and that municipal officials be not [sic] shorn of the discretionary powers of their office by any final action of their predecessors on their way out of office.”); Morin v. Foster, 45 N.Y.2d 287, 408 N.Y.S.2d 387, 380 N.E.2d 217, 220 (1978) (<HOLDING>); Uintah Basin Med. Ctr. v. Hardy, 54 P.3d
holding that when a term is not defined in a contract the presumption is that the term is to be given its ordinary meaning and significance holding that both saline county and grant county had jurisdiction to try the appellant for murder where the actual killing occurred in one county but the acts requisite to the consummation of the murder and the subsequent disposal of the body occurred in the other county holding that an additional term did not materially alter the contract because the plaintiff cannot profess to be surprised by an additional term in an invoice when the price quotation contained the identical term holding that there can be no implied contractual term at variance with an express term of a contract recognizing that but for a provision in a countys charter allowing for appointment of the county manager for a fouryear term the countys legislators would be unable to appoint the county manager for a term extending into the term of the legislators successors