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asked Mr. Walker if he had the ability to either increase or raise her salary. Mr. Walker stated that he did not. Mr. Price asked if Joyce was in the hierarchy of Mr. Walker’s span of control. Mr. Walker stated that she would not. Mr. Price asked Mr. Walker if you looked at it in a budgetary item would Joyce fall under the legislative budget. Mr. Walker stated yes. Mr. Price asked who controlled the legislative budget to which Mr. Walker stated the City Council. Mr. Price stated that since it has now been made clear to him that only the City Council can authorize approval for representation for the City Clerk. He asked who gave the authority to represent Joyce. He stated he would like to poll his colleagues individually to determine whether any member of Council had granted such approval. Mr. Price asked Ms. Carr if she had talked to the City Manager to agree to grant such approval. She replied that she did not. Mr. Price then asked Mr. Kraft if he had talked to the City Manager to grant the authority. Mr. Price stated that Mr. Kraft refused to answer so it could be either yes or no. Mr. Kraft asked do you beat your wife because that is the kind of question you just asked. Mr. Kraft in response to Mr. Price’s question said he did not ask the City Attorney to represent Joyce. Mr. Price stated that was all Mr. Kraft needed to say. Mr. Kraft started to speak and Mayor Welsch asked him to let Mr. Price finish. Mr. Price said that this man was rude and the Mayor needed to put him in check. He asked the Mayor the same question and she responded “no.” He followed by asking Mr. Crow, Mr. Glickert and Mr. Sharpe is they had given authority to approve authorization to represent the City Clerk and they all replied no. Mr. Price then asked Ms. Forster who had granted her the authority to represent Ms. Pumm. Ms. Forster stated that she had received the authority to enter on behalf of the City from Mr. Walker. She stated that Joyce pursuant to the Charter and the State Statutes is the election authority representative for the City of University City. She stated that technically the city is the Defendant and you cannot serve an order on a city, the City Clerk, who is acting in her official capacity for the City is the individual upon whom the order has to be served but she is acting in her official capacity for the city. Mr. Price said when the situation took place the City Attorney found it necessary not to let the people know who Ms. Pumm reports to, what was taking place. Ms. Forster stated she reported to Mr. Walker and Mr. Price said that was not the question he asked, his question was she don’t report to Mr. Walker, she reports to us, so Ms. Forster decided who to notify that this situation was taking place. Ms. Forster stated that Council had been notified of the City Clerk’s decision not to certify Mr. Hales. Mr. Price asked if that was before the fact, after the fact, in-between the fact. Ms. Forster stated that while she is not certain of the exact date, her understanding is that Council was provided with a copy of the letter at the same time that it went out to Mr. Hales. Mr. Price said so she really did not know when that took place. Mr. Price stated that he finds it somewhat ironic because some things are déjá vu, some things happen twice and it was ironic as he was making his bid for election in 2006 he had received a call from the Clerk informing him that his taxes had not been paid. He stated that his son, whose name is not Byron R. Price, had not paid his taxes, nor had his daughter’s taxes been paid, that is when they were all living with him. However once it was determined that he had paid his taxes, he was then informed that he was also required to pay his children’s taxes. Mr. Price said he then had to say you can jump in the river, go talk to whoever you want to as he was not responsible to pay anybody else’s taxes that reside in his household. He said then he got a call saying he did not have to pay those. At the same time this was going on 7