In a heated discussion during Tuesday’s meeting, Columbus Councilors disgreed with City Attorney Clifton Fay over the city’s payment of an employee’s legal fees after an investigation into the Columbus Consolidated Government’s finance department.
Councilor Glenn Davis of District 2 asked whether the city had paid the $37,705 to the Robbins Law Firm of Atlanta and the reimbursement of $5,000 to CCG human resources director Reather Hollowell, for payments she made to the firm. The council voted 6-4 last month to pay the fee and the reimbursement.
There are often a lot of lawsuits against the city, Davis said, and most of the time, there’s a process for paying those costs. This situation did not go through a process before the city received a bill for about $45,000, he said…