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Council asks for multi-year breakdown of roughly $750,000 in legal fees

St. Helens City Council · April 1, 2026
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Council members asked the city attorney and finance staff to categorize and produce a three-year breakout of legal-services spending after staff flagged about $750,000 year-to-date professional services; staff will run detailed professional-services reports before engaging attorneys.

Councilors asked the city attorney and finance staff on April 1 to produce a clearer, multi-year accounting of legal expenditures after staff noted roughly $750,000 in legal-related professional services year-to-date.

City Attorney Ashley described a framework for categorizing legal costs into discrete buckets—municipal law, municipal court, labor and employment…

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