At 8pm the City Hall Library resembled a Congressional Committee Hearing chamber. As expected after passing a Resolution authorizing Banner hanging permission for the High School Band to march from the school to Hub Stein Field for football games within 3 minutes after the meeting opened the Council went in to a short Executive (closed) Session. All Council m embers were present except Councilor Reid.
At 8:30 the public meeting was reconvened. There had been 5 subpoenas issued. Only former City Administrator Bibi Taylor and Corporation Counsel Williamson were present.
Absent was Acting Purchasing Supervisor Spaulding who had been served Friday; Acting (at that time) CFO Cummings who could not be served because there was confusion about her apartment number, and the Mayor since the Process Server could not access her office and apparently had the wrong home address. Her Attorney is supposed to have accepted the subpoena on either Monday or Tuesday and for technical reasons advised her not to appear. It was understood that she and her attorney will be willing to meet with the Council in closed Session at some other time.
Bibi Taylor finished her testimony at 9:30 pm. However since there were questions about conversations during the Mayor's Cabinet meetings it was the ruling that due to the presence of the Corporation Counsel at those meetings the Attorney/Client relationship applied and any testimony about them would be considered privileged and had to be heard in Executive Session. There fore at 9:30 the Council again went into Executive Session.
Since the other "witness'; Corporation Counsel Williamson had claimed Attorney/Client confidentiality his hearing was to follow in closed session.
Briefly, a enough was heard to understand that there was some "hanky panky" involved in the issuance of a $20,000.00 check to WBLS. I will post more later Thursday.
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This is all our fault. Again, the Mayor is the victim here..If we hadn't put her in office she wouldn't have been able to do this.
ReplyDelete( Thought I'd take a nice legal defense stance ala former Sen.Wayne Bryant D-NJ )
It is too bad Reid wasn't there..I would love to have seen what his ignorant take on the entire situation unfolding in front of the city council was. His blatant "protect Sharon" at all costs has simply become too comical to miss. Maybe another day..