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Council committee advances final legislation for Truesen Farm development amid liability warning
Summary
Finance and Personnel committee called for final legislation associated with the Truesen Farm development after a committee member warned rejecting the measure could breach existing contracts and expose the city to liability.
The Finance and Personnel Committee called the final legislation associated with the Truesen Farm development at its April 21 meeting and moved it forward with emergency wording requested.
“I've made my position well known that I've always been against this project since the start,” a committee member said during debate, adding he had discussed legal risk with the law department. “However, I did speak with legal and rejecting this could cause the state to be in breach of the contracts that already been signed and hold us extremely liable.”
Committee members heard that legal counsel advised that refusal to approve the final legislation could expose the city to contract liability. After that exchange the committee voted to call the legislation to full council under the requested emergency timeline. The transcript records the vote as passing; no roll-call tally or text of the ordinance appeared in the spoken record.
The finance chair described the action as the final step to implement prior agreements tied to the Truesen Farm development; committee members did not record amendments to the final legislation during the meeting.
