Post by admin1 on Jul 18, 2013 5:47:45 GMT -7
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Good news!
Something good happened in yesterday’s city council meeting.
A city representative had placed an item on the agenda that would allow inquiry and action relative to the city’s lawsuit against the Texas attorney general. I have written about the issue before with Help stop the lawsuit being the most recent post.
The mayor started the conversation by explaining that a few weeks ago he had asked the city attorney to look into discontinuing the lawsuit. Council and the city attorney participated in the conversation after his introduction.
The city attorney informed council that the total legal bill for the city action so far was about $7,000. That means that very little had actually been done and confirms the wide-spread belief that the city lawsuit was primarily designed to delay the release of the emails in question.
Council ended up instructing the city attorney to bring the matter to a close and report back to the council within three weeks. They did this after adjourning into executive session to answer one question that a city representative had. Council stayed in executive session for quite some time.
To me that suggests that there will be some consequences of the release of the emails and that the city attorney was trying to work through the issues with council. Stay tuned for the fireworks.
Some council members spoke about how they thought the city lawsuit was the wrong thing to do. Others who were on council and voted to try to suppress the emails through the lawsuit remained mostly silent.
The truth will start coming out when the public gets to see the documents.
The new mayor and council have done a good thing here.
We are getting better
Brutus
Good news!
Something good happened in yesterday’s city council meeting.
A city representative had placed an item on the agenda that would allow inquiry and action relative to the city’s lawsuit against the Texas attorney general. I have written about the issue before with Help stop the lawsuit being the most recent post.
The mayor started the conversation by explaining that a few weeks ago he had asked the city attorney to look into discontinuing the lawsuit. Council and the city attorney participated in the conversation after his introduction.
The city attorney informed council that the total legal bill for the city action so far was about $7,000. That means that very little had actually been done and confirms the wide-spread belief that the city lawsuit was primarily designed to delay the release of the emails in question.
Council ended up instructing the city attorney to bring the matter to a close and report back to the council within three weeks. They did this after adjourning into executive session to answer one question that a city representative had. Council stayed in executive session for quite some time.
To me that suggests that there will be some consequences of the release of the emails and that the city attorney was trying to work through the issues with council. Stay tuned for the fireworks.
Some council members spoke about how they thought the city lawsuit was the wrong thing to do. Others who were on council and voted to try to suppress the emails through the lawsuit remained mostly silent.
The truth will start coming out when the public gets to see the documents.
The new mayor and council have done a good thing here.
We are getting better
Brutus