Mayor Virginia Hillman as well as City Clerk Angela Nicholson were prepared to allow an additional ten days for the organizers of a referendum petition drive to continue to collect signatures. Mayor Hillman and Clerk Nicholson reversed their position at the insistence and advice of City Attorney Steve Cobb.
To read a recent Sherwood Voice article, published Thursday, March 13th please click here:
http://www.sherwoodvoice.com/articles/2008/03/14/sherwood_voice/news/nws03.txt
Organizers have vowed to fight and are under the impression that the City Attorney Steve Cobb's advice may be at odds with state statute and previous Attorney General opinions on this matter. There is still a window of time to organize and collect signatures under a new drive for an intitated act in order to reverse the actions of the City Council.
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Must say I'm disappointed in the tone.
The repeated "part-time" references are nothing but a cheap pitiful attempt to dig at the quality of legal representation provided by the city attorney ELECTED by the citizens of the city.
I suspect Mr. Cobb is a full-time attorney, its just that the position is part-time. Sherwood could have a full-time attorney but I doubt the city will be inclined to pay enough for an elected position to have a quality occupant of the office.
Maybe if this is such a concern, funding a full-time unelected deputy city attorney position would be a better use of time than tilting at windmills on a petition drive that is drawin less than nominal interest.
Sorry if you were offended by the word usage placed in this post. That was not my intention. I've deleted the reference to "part time".
The city really should have a full time attorney as we have many lawsuits that we are engaged in, some by other cities, some by property owners and some because of the actions of the city council.
FYI - although the city attorney was elected to his position he has not drawn an opponent in years.
Also, his advise was inconsistent with state statutes and Arkansas Attorney General formal opinions.
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