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City council appoints municipal solicitor on $5,700 monthly retainer and confirms other reorganizational posts
Summary
At its reorganizational meeting the council appointed Matthew Gigg of Dillon McCandless King Kalogram LLP as municipal solicitor on a $5,700 monthly retainer, approved a new city manager and open-records officer, named the local emergency management coordinator and confirmed the city's depositories and newspaper of record.
The city council voted to appoint Matthew Gigg of Dillon McCandless King Kalogram LLP as the city's solicitor under a monthly retainer of $5,700, and took several other standard reorganizational actions including naming a city manager, designating an open-records officer, appointing a local emergency management coordinator and confirming the city's depositories and newspaper of record.
The solicitor appointment passed after council members chose the retainer option from two proposals offered by the firm. The retainer amount was presented as roughly equivalent to 30 hours of work per month at a municipal billing rate of $190 per hour; the firm also offered an alternative option to bill only for hours actually worked. Litigation matters would be billed at the same…
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