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Submitted by Councilmember McKeon - Request for Information and Actions Related to the RWG Report
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Recommended Action:
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1. City Council vote tonight to waive the attorney-client and Closed Session confidentiality privileges for the 10 Closed Session Meetings on the Moore v. City, Gates lawsuit for the sole purposes of allowing Mr. Gates to give his side of the story - to return to City Council with a public presentation on what was discussed and decided (by Councilmember votes) in those 10 Closed Sessions, and
2. City Council to vote tonight to waive the claimed attorney-client and any other confidentiality privilege on any and all communications between Councilmembers and Craig Steele and his attorneys regarding this "investigation," and
3. Direct the City Manager to work with IS to preserve all emails/texts/communications between City Council Members and Craig Steele and Richards Watson Gershon (RWG) and between former City Manager Oliver Chi and RWG, and
4. City Council to vote tonight to waive the claimed attorney-client and any other confidentiality privilege on any and all RWG invoices for the work they have done on this "investigation" (going back to 2020) and to have those invoices, all of them, sent by the Finance Director and City Manager to Mr. Gates for review to make determinations as to the propriety of the work by RWG and to see if a new investigation should be undertaken to analyze the propriety of RWG's investigation of Mr. Gates in the first place, and the propriety of the taxpayer dollars spent on the Steel "investigation," and
5. Direct the City Manager to remove the RWG report from the City's website - so that there are no links and no availability on the City's website whatsoever. If any member of the public wants a copy, they can send a request to the City Attorney's office to produce public records under the CPRA, and
6. Direct Mr. Gates, after review of the aforementioned communications and...
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