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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 8, 2019 Page 12 Councilmember Etten was concerned that at no time did he hear the Chair express any understanding of the concerns that have been brought to him. Whether before the meeting, at the meeting, or since the meeting. Mr. Bull has emailed the Coun- cil his thoughts, so he wondered what future decisions might be before the Chair that would also ignore legal counsel. He noted this is the reason he brought this up. He thought this was a very serious thing for the City in making sure it oper- ates in a clean, open, and fair way for citizens. Mayor Roe indicated there is not a clear action for the Council to make and thought it would be could for the Council to discuss and decide what the action, if any, should be. City Attorney Gaughan stated his sole role ended upon giving his advice and it would be inappropriate for him to weigh in on any decision making at this point. Councilmember Willmus indicated from his perspective and going through what is before the Council and what is in Code, the Council does not choose Commis- sion Chairs and leaves that open to the individual Commissions to select their leadership. What he would not want to see is the Council, for whatever reason, indicating this person should not be chair and ask the Commission to choose someone else. He did not think that was appropriate. In looking at the City's Uniform Commission Code, he thought the only recourse available to the Council would be removal. He did not know where the Council stood on that but thought that was where the discussion lies. Mayor Roe stated for a different perspective to Councilmember Willmus' re- sponse to the other actions, the City does have the actual layout in Code which is removal without need for cause. He thought the Commissions are established by the Council for purposes that the Council wants to receive the information from the various Commissions and it is inappropriate for the Council to be involved in the decision making of the particular Commissions as to who their Chair is. That is pretty well laid out as a process and procedure in the City Code and other mate- rials. Where he differs is because it does not say the Council should be involved in the selection of Chairs. He did not know if that goes so far as to say that the Council cannot take an action related to somebody continuing as the Chair. He thought that was open to the Council to interpret and did not know if there would be legal advice regarding that. Councilmember Groff indicated the concern he had is the process used in that meeting. He watched the meeting because he had some calls about it from the public with concerns those people had along with the other Commission Members being concerned. He then watched it again this past weekend and after watching it again, he was very concerned because if the City Attorney advised him to recu- se himself, he would have done so and not contested the advice of the City Attor- ney. That is one issue he had. Further along in the process, he watched how