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Mr. Price said he was sure the City Attorney would not give a review of a letter defaming his character also a legal opinion of removing an elected official. Mayor Welsch noted that the Council is considering a motion to remove a bullet point on the reprimand letter and asked Mr. Price to speak to the motion. Mr. Price said he needed clarification on the motion as it came out on the letter as fact and now you are trying to say it did not happen. A Point of Order was called by Ms. Ricci stating Councilmember Glickert asked that the item be removed, he is not saying it did not happen and it is not appropriate to ask the City Attorney to be a fact finder. She said he may have reviewed the letter but his role is certainly not to be part of the facts of this case and removal of the point is not saying that Mr. Price did not do it. Mayor Welsch agreed that Mr. Mulligan should not be asked to opine on the content of the letter. She said Mr. Mulligan was asked about the legality of some of the actions in the room. Mr. Crow said that based upon the concerns expressed by the rest of the Council, the motion may not be the appropriate solution to this problem. He said once it is out of the jar it does not matter if it is taken back as the allegation has already been made. He said the question is how much of this gets run by the City Attorney and how much input does he really have or how much of it is a footnote for all of us to know. Mr. Sharpe asked Mr. Mulligan what was his comment meant in reference to, if this continues we are hurting the validity of what the Council does. Mr. Mulligan said the question that was posed to him was whether defamatory statements that are made about employees or officials, whether there is a potential for litigation over that and his opinion is that there is. He was not addressing specifically what Mr. Price said and was speaking in general terms. Mr. Price said the question he had was that this is total character assassination and he is not taking it lightly. He says this letter states that the City Attorney was consulted which meant we went to that attorney and talked to that attorney about removal of an elected official. A letter came out from the Mayor with statements that are not valid with stereotype adjectives as menacing. He said because we, African Americans look menacing A Point of Order was called by Ms. Ricci Mr. Price said you use the king of language like he attacked somebody. He said no officer approached him or talked to him afterwards and this was false. He again asked Mr. Mulligan if he approved the items listed in the letter as they said they consulted you. A Point of Order was called by Ms. Ricci Mayor Welsch made a Point of Order stating that nowhere in that letter does it say Mr. Mulligan approved that list. She said if you would go to the second page it says “Mr. 14