City Attorney Robert Shannon told me this week that when the City Council discusses in closed session Tuesday whether to release confidential documents related to the controversial Los Cerritos Wetlands land swap, each council member's vote will be released after the meeting.
While the council's votes in closed session meetings often aren't revealed beyond "the council approved it," Shannon said the wetlands deal is such a high-profile and contentious issue that he will report the final closed session vote results.
The documents in question were withheld because of attorney-client priviledge from a public records request by environmentalist Tom Marchese. The 377 pages of e-mails and other documents that Marchese did receive revealed what some critics say are questionable negotiating methods by Director of Public Works Mike Conway. Read about that here.
However, Marchese noticed the gaps of the withheld documents and has specifically asked for those to be released, now that the terms of the deal have been made public.
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