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<br />also stated her expectation that City Council should receive all of the Boards and <br />Commissions Meeting minutes. <br /> <br />4. Other Discussions/Business <br /> <br /> Mayor Welsch’s Comments. <br />Mayor Welsch read a short statement regarding the meeting two weeks ago <br />concerning her electronic University City Bulletin Board newsletter, which <br />mentioned a legal opinion that the City Council had received from City Attorney <br />Paul Martin. This legal opinion concerned actions taken by a majority of the City <br />Council at a previous City Council meeting, which Mr. Martin indicated violated <br />the State’s Statute. Mayor Welsch said she excerpted one section of that opinion <br />in her newsletter and also shared an explanatory document that Mr. Martin had <br />written related to the proposed intergovernmental agreement between University <br />City and Olivette. She said she did not reconfirm that those documents were <br />public documents as mandated by Council Rule #37 before she shared that <br />information and document. She stated that she should have checked and that it <br />was an error on her part. Mayor Welsch said that she regretted releasing that <br />information in the University City Bulletin Board and it would not happen again. <br />She wanted to reassure everyone at the City Council meeting that City Attorney <br />Mr. Martin said that no information released would compromised the City of <br />University City in any way. <br /> <br />Ms. Carr thanked Mayor Welsch for her explanation, but she disagreed with what <br />Mayor Welsch alleged as Mr. Martin’s reassurance. She stated that she could <br />think of two particular things, one from each document, with a caveat at the top of <br />the document stating that it was confidential information. She also reiterated that <br />not any one on the City Council can make a decision to excerpt or release a <br />portion of that information in writing, or any kind of reproduction - but did not limit <br />them from broadly discussing it. Ms. Carr stated that she accepted Mayor <br />Welsch’s statement that she would not post anything of that nature again, but still <br />believed it was a violation of the charter because the charter stated that they <br />were a council of seven and not one above the other six and none of them had <br />the opportunity to discuss that. Ms. Carr also believed that it was used to <br />illustrate that some of Council had made a legal error in pointing to the resolution <br />recently passed. <br /> <br />Ms. Carr referenced to the City Council and citizens that two years ago a <br />resolution to censor Councilmember Byron Price was passed because of his bad <br />behavior. Ms. Carr said Councilmember Price did not put any information out into <br />the public and did not break the City Council’s rules as such, but a resolution of <br />the City Council that reprimanded Councilmember Price was clear and <br />Councilmember Sharpe spoke to that at that time. She said that Councilmember <br />Price was an impassioned speaker and you either liked it or you didn’t, but that <br />was not a reason to reprimand him. <br /> <br />Ms. Carr felt that in this case, it was very clear because not only was Rule #37 <br />broken, but in the previous resolution reprimanding Mr. Price, Mayor Welsch gave <br />reason was mainly about following the rules, not the behavior. She said it was <br />clear that the Mayor did not follow the rules. Ms. Carr felt that Mayor Welsch <br />5 <br /> <br /> <br />