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\r Mayor Casey: "The statement that I'm going to be adding is that the minutes reflect that the City Council asked agendized an item prepared by a memo by the City Clerk and those items were: disclosure, conflict of interest and several other items dealing with the activities of the Mayor. My concern about this is that this was not requested to be agendized by this full City Council. The conflict of interest was requested to be agendized by Councilmember Tryon. The City Clerk prepared a memo dictated to her by Councilmember Tryon and my concern about this is that at the meeting which was very late at night at twelve o'clock I specifically said that if there was a concern abut any disclosure or conflict of interest in all fairness to anyone of us it was necessary that we be made known as to what the conflict of interest was before it be on the agenda and if it is on the agenda then a full accountability of that conflict of interest be made known to any member of the City Council accused of such an action. This never occurred. I never knew what conflict of interest I was being accused of before the meeting that night. This is not fair and it does not show the kind of respect that I think the majority of this Council wants to express to other Councilmembers and this is why I'm concerned because there was no conflict of interest as was shown at the next meeting and I don't believe Council requested it to be placed on the agenda. Councilmember Tryon did." Councilmember Tryon: "That is incorrect and your memory is conveniently cloudy on this issue. If you say you did not know what the issue was it is amazing that you brought Mr. Ng to the meeting." Mayor Casey: "I did not bring Mr. Ng to a meeting." (At this point in the tape Mayor Pro Tem Siegel suggests that statements be given by Councilmembers and included with minutes.) Councilmember Tryon: "I'm responding to something that I know to be true because I did listen to the tape with the City Manager and this is what Councilmember vanTamelen brought up: reconsideration of motion, respresentation of official Town policy by the Mayor, intervention with applications at Planning Commission Meetings and the conflict of interest issue. These were all on the tape and it is exactly correct and the City Clerk has taken these minutes appropriately and correctly and it is extremely later for the Mayor to attempt to change the record. We have already approved your putting a statement in the record but we may make any statement we wish to refute that." Councilmember van Tamelen: "I did not ask that Items I and 2 be agendized; I asked that Items 3 and 4 be agendized and I asked these specifically and I did provide some written materials. You made the statement that you were not provided with written material." May 2, 1990 4