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Parlier council meeting stalls as three members leave amid dispute over city attorney
Summary
Three council members left a Parlier City meeting during a dispute about terminating the city attorney, leaving the body without a functioning meeting and prompting allegations of Brown Act violations and warnings that removing counsel amid a $4,000,000 lawsuit could risk the city’s finances.
Unidentified Speaker 1, a member of the Parlier City Council, accused three fellow council members of "failing their fiduciary responsibility" after they left a meeting in protest over the council's inability to remove the city attorney, saying the group "threw a tantrum" and that she has "reported them." The departures left the meeting without a functioning agenda and halted action on several items.
The speaker raised procedural and legal concerns, telling the meeting that an acting city manager "does not have authority to expedite and approve a contract" and alleging the council took action in closed session on evaluation items in violation of…
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