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Council questions city attorney's performance; members seek RFP and executive session
Summary
At a study session, council members raised repeated concerns about the city's contracted legal counsel's timeliness, drafting errors and scope of participation. The council directed staff to prepare an RFP for outside legal services and scheduled further discussion in executive session.
Council members at a Farmers Branch study session on item A6 sharply criticized the city's contracted legal counsel, citing missed emails, drafting errors and instances where the attorney's involvement appeared to exceed an advisory role.
"We are at the highest level of making decisions for our city. We should not be in the minutiae of reviewing the contracts for typos," Councilman Roman said, laying out a list of alleged problems including slow responses, distractions during meetings, and what he described as a failure to protect the city from contract mistakes.
Roman pointed to multiple examples he said show recurring problems in legal work'including redlines to an employment agreement and what he said were ordinance drafting errors'and said…
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