My bad, I thought that was the responsibility of the City Clerk, but it seems these days nobody knows exactly what he is responsible for. Maybe he is working on getting his city clerk certification like his two assistants have (that get paid less than him)?
Starr and Stehly were going to present a resolution on Tuesday that would request the release of the Falls Park Safety Audit, but since the report was released (was it really?) the resolution would be moot. City Attorney Leonard points this out in an email to the council.
But yesterday on Belfrage’s show, Starr has the idea to essentially change the resolution to require the administration release all or any such reports in the future as they come available. Essentially ‘Hog Housing’ a city council resolution and changing it to apply to future issues of transparency. I have been arguing for a couple of weeks the transparency issues between city hall and the council could be fixed with some ordinance changes by the council requiring the Mayor’s office to release all information to them either in the open or confidentially in executive session.
After a long diatribe about why they can’t do this, Leonard says this;
In the City council’s policies and procedures manual, the city council adopted by Resolution requires that the city council will follow the executive order on the Agenda Approval form.  Further, all legislation must be signed off as to form and legality by my office.
While I agree they should use the city attorney to check the legality of a resolution, ordinance or policy before voting on it, what if they chose to use outside counsel? If that is the case, they wouldn’t need Leonard’s agenda approval for anything. I wonder if the city council must also get permission from the administration before wiping their arses at Carnegie?