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Milton delays city attorney engagement letter; council asks for budget, reporting and billing clarifications
Summary
Councilmembers asked the incoming engagement letter for the city attorney be revised to include a budget, monthly status reports, billing increments, virtual-attendance rules and a travel-expense threshold, and moved final approval to the June 20 workshop.
Councilwoman Farrell urged revisions to the proposed engagement letter with the city attorney and the City Council agreed to postpone final approval until the June 20 workshop to allow staff and the firm to rewrite the document.
Farrell said the council should require the firm to “submit a budget to the city manager” and provide a monthly report describing the status of outstanding matters. She also asked that the contract specify billing practices — including telephone billing in tenth-of-an-hour increments — and clarify rules for virtual attendance and reimbursement thresholds for out-of-town travel.
City Manager Mister Spears and the city attorney present said they had no objection to including those items as…
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