All right, it is 3 30, so I'm gonna call us to order.

I know we're missing.

Hopefully, Becky will come in a little late.

I just know that we're on a time schedule, so I'm gonna start us.

But um, again, this is a special meeting, so we have one topic.

Again, it's a consideration of a separation agreement.

Um, and again, uh, we're on a on a time restraint here.

We do have lots of people that have things to do, and this was a hard meeting to get everybody assigned to.

We do have Mayor Yako and Don Cleaver online, so people are aware.

Um, and we are gonna need to have a hard fast about 425, 430 because people have prior obligations.

And again, so if we can be a reminder to keep on topic, be concise just so we can kind of meet that and try to find some consensus on the issue at hand.

So awesome.

I'll hand it over, Chris, if you have a little intro for us.

All right, thank you, President Fair and Council members.

So, as you have on your agenda, um, the topic of consideration is a separation agreement that is related to uh city staff member, long-term city staff member,

uh

finance director Marshall Halleck.

Um

just

a little background on this process.

Um, as all of you know, we are currently actually under um uh uh status quo status uh by the Bureau of Uh Management Services BMS related to a uh a proposed uh supervisory union process.

And so that's an important um beginning statement in that um this process is uh initiated, was initiated

um

by Marshall as a voluntary resignation.

And uh we had several weeks of conversation um over uh starting in July about the possibility of of this.

Obviously, with his long tenure with the city over 26 years.

Um he's he's nearing retirement and um it was initiated by Marshall.

We uh moved through um several conversations, had um a draft resignation agreement uh that was uh on the timeline that was provided to you by the city attorney that was provided um about six weeks ago.

We had some back and forth on on proposed terms with that agreement, and um the the intent was to bring that forward for the full comp for full full council consideration at a regular meeting at some point.

However, um the the the first um letter uh from Marshall, as you saw in your in your uh additional information um from the the city attorney and the the related information that was provided in the the PDF uh document of communication.

Um the timing of that um initial resignation from that initial letter was September 4th.

And uh in light of uh two council members being gone, not not uh available for the September 14th meeting, and uh Marshall not wishing this to extend beyond that uh to September 28th.

The option for the council to consider this was to have a special meeting.

So that that was the the background.

Um voluntary in nature, um, a a separation or resignation agreement was the the process for doing

that.

And um

I

think the rest is going to be led by our uh city attorney.

We have Liz Vieira here.

Um she will be able to provide uh an overall overview on on some of the comments that she provided in the attorney client privilege um information yesterday, and then uh I think begin to address any questions that you may

have.

So without further ado, I'm gonna hand it over to Liz.

Welcome, Liz.

Point of order.

Um

you're not recognized, we're in the middle of a business meeting right now, okay?

No, thank you.

Okay, where's the public comment going to come in?

There is

no public comment this evening.

There is no

public comment this evening.

Please sit down.

That will be objected to, of course.

Thank you, Liz.

Good afternoon.

Um I wanted to at the top just address two pieces that I think um can help guide the discussion today.

Um, so first is that council has received um some private personnel data on Mr.

Halleck as part of um its consideration of a separation agreement.