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Committee authorizes multiple claims payments and legal actions after closed session
Summary
Following a closed session, the committee ordered payment and settlement resolutions on several claims and authorized legal services and acceptance of funds tied to pending cases.
After convening in closed session under Wisconsin Statute 19.85(1)(g) to confer with the city attorney about litigation, the Judiciary and Legislation Committee returned to open session and ordered several claims payments, settlements and legal-authority actions discussed in closed session.
The committee recorded the following final actions on the Feb. 3 agenda (items are listed by committee file number and outcome recorded on the committee floor):
- File 241-455: Resolution authorizing payment of the claim of Robert Kohloff (file 1030-2023-1274). Committee ordered the payment as discussed in closed session; mover recorded on the floor as Alderwoman Andrea Pratt.
- File 241-456: Resolution authorizing payment of claims of Dennis Dagger, Renita Hunt and Victor Dagger (file 1030-2024-511). Committee ordered the payment; mover recorded on the floor was Alderman Chambers.
- File 241-508: Resolution authorizing settlement of claim and lawsuit Daniel Seager v. City of Milwaukee (Circuit Court case 24-CV-9423). Committee ordered settlement authorization; mover recorded on the floor was Alderman Burgess.
- File 241-545 (substitute): Resolution authorizing acceptance of funds from the Jewel Lab Inc. lawsuit. Committee ordered adoption as moved on the record.
- File 241-535 (substitute): Resolution authorizing the City Attorney's Office to contract with Nathaniel Kaminsky, LLP for legal services in Wilbur v. City of Milwaukee (case 23-223-CV-00915, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin). Committee ordered the contract authorization as discussed in closed session.
Committee members moved each item for adoption on the record after closed-session discussion; the transcript records no objections to the actions as read on the floor and each item was "so ordered." The city attorney's office indicated these items were discussed in closed session because they involve litigation or potential litigation, consistent with the statutory basis the committee announced when it went into closed session.
Because the actions were authorized after closed-session deliberations, the committee record contains only limited public discussion of the facts behind the payments and settlements; the committee transcript records movers and the committee's order to adopt, but not detailed factual debate in open session. The city clerk and city attorney will complete required administrative steps after the committee's action.
