Sunday, July 28, 2013

Part of the latest installment in the right-hand column, from our then Mayor Jeff Clemens at the December 3, 2008 closed-door meeting...

MAYOR CLEMENS: Okay. Just making sure. Okay. Having said that, I do believe one way to resolve the McNamara McCauley lawsuit is to find a way to exit the Greater Bay contract. I think, in my estimation and I'm certainly open to hearing other suggestions, there are really two ways to do it and that is the carrot or the stick. And, you know, we can -- we can either say they failed to meet their obligations and as such we are going to terminate the contract. In that case, I'm 100% sure we would be sued. Maybe that's something that we're -- we're willing to take on and fight and we will hear advice from the attorney about whether or not they feel we could win that case. And the other would be the carrot and that would be to say we don't want to go into any type of legal proceedings and we're willing to offer you a certain sum of money so that we don't have to spend it on lawyers over the next year of two. So, I will just leave it open for discussion. Maybe we want to hear from Mr. Joslyn about what his interpretation of whether or not they -- they've lived up to their end of the contract and what we could expect if we decide to go that route.