Meeting votes 3–0 to hire law firm KKJL as legal counsel after RFP

Participants at a meeting whose governing body is not specified in the transcript voted 3–0 to hire Klausner, Kaufman, Jensen & Levinson (KKJL) as the meeting's legal services provider after issuing a request for proposals, a staff member said.

The staff member recapped that Pedro Herrera had left Sugarman Susskind for Jones Walker and that the group had chosen to go to RFP rather than follow Herrera to his new firm or remain with Sugarman Susskind. "You chose to go out to RFP for legal services," the staff member said, adding that five firms responded and that the vote favored hiring KKJL.

"That was a 3 to nothing vote," the staff member said. The staff member added, "I will start the process of letting Sugarman's firm know that they have been replaced and that KKJL will be reaching out to them for documents." The staff member also said, "There will be a new contract coming from, you know, Klausner, from Bonnie Jensen's firm, and they will just start as your legal services, and we'll have you signing off on their" contract.

The transcript does not identify who made or seconded the motion. The meeting record supplied in the transcript shows a 3–0 tally but does not list individual votes by name.

The Chair scheduled the next quarterly meeting for June 8, 2026, at 1:30 p.m. and asked whether signatures were needed; the staff member said they would send an email with the separation notice and a single signature request. The transcript also shows the Chair beginning to raise the issue of "Brian's status on the board," but that item was not completed or resolved in the provided record.

Next steps recorded in the meeting included staff notifying Sugarman Susskind of the change, KKJL reaching out for documents, and the incoming contract being circulated for signatures.

(Transcript spelled the incoming firm name inconsistently; this article renders the firm as Klausner, Kaufman, Jensen & Levinson and uses the abbreviation KKJL for clarity.)