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Residents raise concerns about city legal contracts, data centers and a Homeland Security panel
Summary
During public comment residents pressed the council over an expensive outside city attorney contract, utility and safety tips, support for a moratorium on data centers, and concerns about Homeland Security’s presence on a community panel that prompted one group to withdraw.
Four public commenters addressed different issues during the Jan. 20 public-comment period.
Ernestine Pittman told the council she was “past disgusted,” alleging the city is paying an outside city attorney $300,000 a year without a written contract or daily presence and said residents needed more transparency and local legal staff. Pittman called on the council to hold leadership accountable and said, “Now you need to fire that city manager,” while citing…
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