Two Stockton City Council members who voted in favor of holding a special meeting Thursday to examine claims of possible financial wrongdoing by the former interim City Manager didn’t show up — meaning the meeting couldn’t proceed for lack of a quorum.
At its regular meeting Tuesday, the City Council had voted to hold Thursday’s special session to discuss claims by Vice Mayor Jason Lee that former interim City Manager Steve Colangelo promised a nonprofit about $824,000 without council approval.
The claims underlying Lee’s request for a special session date back to last week, when the vice mayor shared a letter with the media apparently from Colangelo and bearing his signature. The letter stated that the city was committing the money to the nonprofit, Service First of Northern California, to bolster the organization’s application for more than $8 million in state grant money…