Meeting Transcript

I'd like to call this meeting to order. Welcome to the September twenty second, twenty twenty-six special city c attorney client session of the city commission meeting. Uh first we will have the invocation by City Auditor and Clerk Griggs, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance led by the si the Vice Mayor. Okay, so moving right along. Um first do we have any uh requests for public comment? So I you don't need to recite the plans. No, I do. Okay. So um the next item on the agenda is attorney client session. And um the agenda item two point one is a special closed meeting of the city commission for the purpose of discussing settlement negotiations and strategy related to the litigation expenditures in the matter of Frederick Rygel versus City of Sarasota and Sarasota County case number twenty twenty-five CA one zero seven four NC. And uh call upon City Attorney Paul's act to explain the attorney client session process. So uh we are going to recess at one thirty four into the closed session and the closed session will take place in room one oh nine. We are now back in open session, and the time is one fifty seven. Um, and I'll call upon attorney Polsack to make comments covering the closed session. Thank you, Mayor. As you stated, we're now back in the open session in the case Frederick Rigel, V City of Sarasota and Sarasota County. Case number two thousand twenty-five, CA zero zero one zero seven four NC. No votes were taken in the shade portion of the meeting. Okay. So I believe I will entertain a motion from one of the commissioners. Mayor I have a motion. Case number twenty twenty five. C A. Zero Zero O seven four NC. In exchange for a fully executed release. And I believe you meant Frederick Rygel instead of Joseph Rygel. I meant Frederick Rigel. Where did I cut? Do I need to read it all over again? Frederick Rigel. Does the second accept the correct motion? Okay. So do we go ahead and vote? Vote. And it passed unanimously. Thank you all very much. So thank you all.