TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Noel Pfeffer, City Attonery
DATE: June 21, 2016
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APPOINTMENT OF AN INTERIM CITY ATTORNEY
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Recommended Action:
Recommendation
Appoint an Interim City Attorney upon the resignation of Mr. Noel Pfeffer.
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City Charter Section 4.07 which requires the appointment of a City Attorney and Section 4.09 which addressed the duties of legal counsel regarding for contracts, ordinances and city documents to be reviewed and approved as to form and legal sufficiency, I am recommending Ms. Janice Rustin, Assistant City Attorney, be named as Interim City Attorney. Mr. Pfeffer will not be available for the next two weeks; and to date, I have not received a proposal from Mr. Pfeffer nor his firm regarding rates or future availability.
I am recommending that Ms. Rustin be appointed to a date certain as desired by the City Commission.