Residents press council for answers on 2023 administrator settlement; council moves to executive session

Several residents used the Oct. 22 Davenport City Council meeting to press for information about a 2023 settlement between the city and a departing administrator and to raise allegations of workplace harassment, while council members clarified who was on the council in 2023 and the meeting ended with a unanimous vote to go into executive session to discuss litigation and a real estate transaction.

Cheryl Scheidna addressed the council during public comment and asked whether the city’s legal department had sought further appeals to federal courts in connection with qualified immunity matters that she said are being handled with outside counsel. She described paying taxpayer money for outside counsel and asked whether appeals had been considered or continued toward the U.S. Supreme Court; the transcript records the…