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Mr. Price said he did not know who gave the City Clerk the legal advice but the City Clerk would not cut him out of the minutes. The City Clerk asked Mr. Martin for his advice for the City. Mr. Martin stated generally speaking he prefers minutes not to reflect conversations of Council simply because it could be used against them. Mr. Price said he did not agree with that and was an elected official and stated, you don’t tell me what I can say and what I can’t say because you didn’t vote for me. Mr. Martin said he would not presume to do that. Mr. Price said he knows exactly what he states and why he is stating any minutes or comments that he makes and will not be censored. He stated that in the next minutes, he wanted his comments in these minutes and you have no authority to do that on your own, deciding to leave his comments out. Mr. Martin said “No Sir, it had nothing to….Mr. Price asked who told him to remove his comments. Mr. Martin said he did not decide to remove his comments or anyone else’s, he was only giving general legal advice about the state of the minutes which was a much better idea to keep minutes factual about what occurred at the meeting and not put in comments about what anyone said. Mr. Price told City Clerk that he wants what he stated transcribed and given to him and he would cross reference it to see what he said was not factual. He said there was no way he would tolerate this person and the City Clerk sanctioning what the public has the right to hear. Mayor Welsch asked Mr. Price if the Council could sit down to discuss this at a separate meeting. He agreed saying it was totally out-of-line and did not understand the undercurrent to it. Ms. Carr stated there was a statement by Mr. Kraft under the aquatics program but no one else’s. She said that there has been a long tradition of reporting of the conversations of the Council, as she spent many hours reading the minutes. Mr. Crow stated the question that was asked of the City Attorney and the position he was put in and agreed with his response as the City Attorney. He thought the decision made by staff to not have their comments placed in without consultation was of concern. He said as a lawyer a large part of research done on law is what was the legislative history and what were the comments made on the floor when passed. Mr. Crow said like it or not, we may have some exposure to comments made but sit on Council at the will of the people and will have to stand by their comments and if people don’t agree, they can vote them out. Mr. Glickert moved to postpone the approval of the June 11, 2012, Regular City Council meeting minutes, was seconded by Mr. Sharpe and carried unanimously. 3. The minutes of June 11, 2012, Study session II were moved for approval by Ms. Carr, was seconded by Mr. Sharpe and the motion carried unanimously. 3