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Willows City Council directs staff to reject liability claim after closed session; no reportable personnel actions
Summary
After a closed session on litigation, personnel, and a liability claim, the city attorney reported council direction to reject a liability claim by a claimant whose name is spelled inconsistently in the transcript (Nicole Marie Seibert / Ebert); no reportable action was taken on personnel evaluations.
Willows City Council convened a closed session during its February meeting to discuss potential litigation, public-employee performance evaluations and a liability claim. On returning to open session the city attorney reported that direction was given to initiate litigation (no reportable action) and that discussions on the city manager and city attorney evaluations produced no reportable action.
The council also directed staff to reject the liability claim identified in the transcript as filed by "Nicole Marie Seibert." The city attorney stated a notice of rejection will be sent. The transcript includes inconsistent spellings of the claimant's surname (Seibert and Ebert in different places); the city attorney read the claim name from the claim form and the staff report.
The closed-session report was brief and procedural; the council took no public, reportable personnel action and the only discrete directive was to reject the named claim and provide formal notice.
Next steps: staff will send the formal notice of claim rejection as directed by the council in closed session.
