9/9/1991 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Minutes

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BOARD F SELECTMEN Page ll MINUTES MONDAY9 SEPTEMBER 99 1991 Recreation Center: We had to rec ind that. Did you recieves this lir. Reardon after if was voted on in Executive Meeting asks Y Selectma a.ff*, n Yes repl.ys Counsel. And then you presented this other letter? Yes replys Counsel, The other letter was sent to the attention of Jerry Carter axed' with a carbon cop went to Wil Hanson. I don' t think there was any- thing sinister at all states Counsel, I' d like to say something about that states Mr. Lawrence, It is not unlikely and many times the Board of Selectmen will vote on proposed contract to find out how the members of the Board Feel. And if they Feel strongly enough, it is sent to Town Counsel. It' s not final. vote. The only time you finl.l.y vote on anything is when You i take the vote to sign the agreement. It was never even contemplated. However, we did not recieve a. copy of that letter states Selectman Jacobson that came back from Mr. Reardon, When we were discussing the property, we had to request it. There are several points that I think need to be clarified so the Town can understand states Counsel. I am very reluctant to discuss this because the Attorney - Client privilege is present here and I view the Board of Selectmen as my client. Since the Board voted to reveal this letter, still fe. -1 uncomfortable about that. It is always uncomfortable for an attorney to talk about a. client in a. relationship that is xist- ing. I don' t thin the agreement was ever specifically referred to me states Counsel, It was contained in part of the package that I get when I attend Selectmen'en' s meetings. And I saw it there and I wrote this letter because I observed it there and because I was worried about some of the things I saw. The original letter. that I sent says confidential on the top in bold, black print. This represents a communication between an attorney and a client and it intended only for the eyes of the addressee To be designated to those persons herein to be designated to recieve a copy hereof The letter was addressed to Terry, dated MaY 3, 1991. I sent it to Terry' s office via fax at 4: 12 p.m. and immediately faxed a copy to Kevin and mailed a. hard copy to Kevin, Jerry and Wil who are the a.dressee, s on that, There was a reason for doing that. The reason is obvious state s Counsel. There are comments here that really should be privileged to the negotiating team. They are not the kind of comments that the other side should see. Until such time as the negotiating team wants then to see. That is the official position that Counsel was taking, So these comments were directed to the eyes of the people who were involved. Known to me to be directly involved with the negotiations which were Jerry, Wil and our Executive Secretary. The rest of the Board did. not get a copy of this because I didn' t thin it was appropriate at that time to publica.11y dispose this to the entire Board. To my knowledge and belief the two Selectmen I had mentioned cnn- tinued to have the support of the Board of Selectmen. As far as con- stituting the negotiating team reports Counsel. Again, I don' t see anything unusual or rare about my addressing what I consider to. be a very sensitive negotiating ratter to the entire Board. Whether confining it to �`he negotiating team* The Executive Secretary frequently gets letters from ane that are for his eyes only,