What: amendments to the city's outside legal services contracts.
Where it stands: Howd & Ludorf amendment No. 2 (+$235,000 for FY2025-26) was reported favorably by Finance on 9/14. A Karsten & Tallberg amendment ($77,240.02, then amendment No. 2) was referred on 10/5 and reported favorably by Finance on 10/8.
Next: Full Board action on the Karsten & Tallberg amendment (second reading 10/19 per the draft agenda).
Details
The sources read are agendas and, where posted, minutes; discussion detail is limited to what they record.
Corporation Counsel asked for $77,240.02 more in authorization for fiscal 2025-26 to cover an invoice from Karsten & Tallberg for legal services at a trial involving a New Haven police officer. The invoice arrived late and was already paid before the fiscal year closed, so the request brings the authorization in line with the payment; the controller said it is included in the roughly $8.459 million deficit announced that day, and that no more invoices are expected. No transfer is involved, and a transfer amendment is expected at the next meeting. The city continues to use the firm. No one testified. Approved favorably on a voice vote.
First readings: the 124 Sylvan lease, the litigation bond ordinance, the Howd & Ludorf amendment, the labor relations transfer and tax abatement orders.