Whose side was she on?

May 17, 2018

One of the theories about the payout to our former city attorney is that they city is paying her hush money to keep her from talking about various things that may have happened during her watch.

I don’t know anyone who believes that she deserves the payout as part of a retirement deal.

If the hush money theory is true what does this say about our former city attorney?

As citizens we have the right to expect our city attorney to see to it that all laws are obeyed.  Yes, she was supposed to represent the council members and the mayor but she should not have allowed them to violate a law.

Are we to believe that she saw things that she was willing to remain silent on as long as she had a job and only brought them up in order to blackmail them into a settlement?

We deserve better

Brutus

 

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Don’t tell the truth when a lie is more convenient

May 15, 2018

So which is it?

Is the city attorney retiring, resigning, or being terminated?

If she is retiring as she has said, the six months of salary that the city has agreed to pay her is a violation of the state constitution according to a recent article in the Times.

Resigning would also make the payout illegal.

If however she is being terminated, her contract evidently provides for six months of severance.

Can’t anyone be honest about this?

We deserve better

Brutus

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As transparent as milk glass

May 14, 2018

What else should we expect?

City council will hold one of their special meetings Monday, May 14, 2018 to discuss the leaving of the city attorney.

She claims that she is retiring yet the agenda asks city council to ratify the separation and release agreement.

People retiring from jobs generally don’t get separation pay.  One story circulating around is that she received poor performance appraisals from city council this time around.  Time will tell.

The very next agenda item is the selection of an interim city attorney.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Water parks

May 12, 2018

This came in from Helen Marshall:

“Words fail me”

We deserve better

Brutus

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Hiring your own judge

May 11, 2018

Our city attorney has resigned.

From our point of view she has been an enabler of much of the nonsense that city council is imposing on us.

For those of you who have not been reading the blog for long and that want some examples, please enter “city attorney” in the search box below.

A new city attorney will be chosen by a majority vote of city council.  The mayor is considered a member of city council.

We have an opportunity to clean up a problem here but it is doubtful that council will choose someone who will stand up to them and tell them when they cannot do something.

Watch the selection process carefully.

We deserve better

Brutus

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