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Personnel committee forwards City Attorney Tim Hooten’s two-year contract renewal to full council
Summary
The Lawrence City Personnel Committee voted to send City Attorney Tim Hooten’s proposed two-year contract extension — including a 3% annual pay increase and unchanged benefits — to the full council with a favorable recommendation after discussing staffing shortages, a settlement, and an open-meeting-law cure.
The Lawrence City Personnel Committee voted to forward City Attorney Tim Hooten’s proposed two-year contract renewal to the full City Council with a favorable recommendation.
City Attorney Tim Hooten told the committee his current contract ends March 21 and asked for a two-year extension with annual 3% increases. Hooten noted a discrepancy in the contract paperwork — a typed figure that reads "150" and a handwritten line that reads "$1.65" — and said the handwritten $1.65 is the correct figure. He said benefits and other terms would remain the same.
Hooten described long stretches when he has been the only attorney in the office (about 13–14 months), and said…
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