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Council debate grows over riverfront spending; members request public meeting as attorney invoice itemization is challenged
Summary
Council members pressed for more transparency and a public meeting on riverfront development costs. Separately, council voted to withhold payment of a small, non‑itemized attorney invoice for the riverfront project and asked for itemized billing.
Council members pressed city staff for clearer cost estimates and greater inclusion in ongoing riverfront-development discussions, and residents used the public-comment period to raise questions about financing and flood-levee impacts.
Several council members said they had not been included in recurring engineer and attorney conversations about the riverfront project and asked staff to include elected officials on email conversations and to schedule a joint meeting with the conservancy district and project engineers. One council member…
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