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High Springs city attorney offers to designate Danielle as primary onsite counsel; commissioners to reassess in six months
Summary
The city attorney told commissioners he would designate Danielle from his firm to act as the city's on-site/designee attorney for monthly meetings, and he proposed implementing a task-tracking form (JotForm) to provide objective response-time data. The commission asked to review the arrangement after six months.
At a regular meeting, High Springs' city attorney discussed shifting primary on-site representation to Danielle, an attorney with the firm who currently handles much of the city's work, and proposed a six-month assessment of how that arrangement performs.
Why it matters: commissioners and staff raised concerns about response times and local availability from outside counsel; assigning one attorney to attend meetings regularly and using an objective tracking tool would change how legal services are managed and measured.
What the city attorney proposed
The city attorney told the commission the city charter identifies the post as an individual office (city attorney or…
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