Among other things, a judge of the chain said the city commissioner’s trial had been torn down with “fatal shortcomings”.
A veteran Talahassi -based judge dumped a case filed by City Commissioner Jeremy Matlow, claiming that the structure of the Blueprint intergovernmental agency has violated the laws of Florida.
Matlow is suing the Agency’s Intergovernmental Committee (IMC)-City Manager Reese Year and District Administrator two years ago to determine whether the committee for two people is subject to the widespread laws of the Florida Government on Open Meetings and public access to records to records.
On Monday, this case is over.
Judge John Cooper, first selected on the bench in 2002, pointed out “fatal flaws” in Matlow’s case, including the failure to defend “claims tied to specific actions that were claimed to have been taken by Blueprint “.
Therefore, Cooper said Blueprint’s proposal to reject “is well accepted and will be provided.”
The judge agreed with Blueprint that “dismissal with prejudice is justified”, which means that Matlow cannot repeat his legal complaint. Among other reasons, prejudice dismissal may mean that there is no credit.
Commentary requests are waiting with Matlow and his assistant to the committee Ryan Ray.
According to a previous reporting, Matlow’s claim raises whether IMC can discuss BluePrint’s official actions beyond publicly noticed and open meetings, and even if they can, whether the two have to preserve publicly available protocols from their meetings.
At a meeting of the plan in September, Mayor of Talahassi John Daily asked the employees to inform him of how much taxpayers were spent as an external lawyer to defend Matlow’s claims for the last two years.
Gowd told Democrat Tallahassee on Monday that since September 23, the agency paid $ 55,821 for legal services and expenses.
Local government reporter Elena Barrera can be found at ebarrera@tallahassee.com. Follow her at X: @elenabarreraaaS