SPECIAL BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL MEETING

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2000, 5:30 P.M.

1900 ADDISON STREET

THIRD FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM

AGENDA

ROLL CALL:   5:30 P.M.

PUBLIC COMMENT:  (Ten minute maximum)

CLOSED SESSION: (The Council will recess into Closed Session immediately after Public Comment or immediately after Roll Call if there are no public speakers)

CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – ANTICIPATED LITIGATION

Significant exposure to litigation pursuant to subdivision (b) of Government Code section 54956.9

Threat of and Exposure to Litigation

The City Attorney has issued an opinion concluding that four members of the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) should disqualify themselves from the Beth El project and any other matter on which the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association (BAHA) has taken a position before the LPC as to these projects, because three of the four commissioners were members of the board of BAHA when it took these positions and the fourth LPC member has been on the staff of BAHA during this period.  Antonio Rossman, an attorney, has been quoted in the November 10, 2000 issue of the Berkeley Daily Planet  as saying that he will sue the City on behalf of the four commissioners unless the Council determines that such commissioners may participate in the LPC decisions.  The Council will meet with its attorneys in closed session to discuss the threat of such litigation.

ADJOURNMENT:  (The Council may adjourn this meeting to the City Council Chambers, 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, and reconvene into Open Session at 7:00 p.m. to make a report, if any such report is required by law.)

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