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Elections board authorizes special counsel for conflict and personnel matters
Summary
After executive session, the board authorized engaging special counsel Haney, Litchfield and White for matters where the board's attorney may have a conflict and for personnel issues; the motion passed unanimously.
Following executive session on pending and potential litigation, the Cobb County Board of Elections voted to authorize engagement of special counsel for matters in which the board’s attorney may have a conflict and for personnel matters.
The motion, as read into the public record, authorized the engagement "as authorized in the Board's engagement agreement with Haney, Litchfield and White," and empowered the board chair and vice chair to execute the agreement. The motion was moved and seconded and passed by a 4–0 vote with one member absent.
Board members brought the item forward immediately after executive session. The board also voted earlier to suspend the rules and amend the meeting agenda to add the special counsel item before taking the authorization vote.
No additional details about the scope, fee arrangement or timing of the engagement were discussed in open session; the board recorded the authorization vote as its public action following the executive-session discussion.
