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• WILLIAM GAY VS. CITY OF MADEIRA BEACH
• WILLIAM GAY VS. CITY OF MADEIRA BEACH
• WILLIAM G GAY MAIRA BEACH, AGE 79, MALE
• WILLIAM GAY
• BILL GAY FLORIDA

WILLIAM GAY VS. CITY OF MADEIRA BEACH

20, 2021MADEIRA BEACH — When 77-year-old Bill Gay bought a ndo Maira Beach nearly a ago, he pictured a relaxg retirement the walkable astal town of about 4, 000 once Gay began followg lol missn meetgs, he cid to put his ee time to work — sug the cy. “I don’t golf and my kne are shot, so I n’t play tennis anymore, ” said Gay, a former ernment nsultant.

”In a lawsu filed last month agast the Cy of Maira Beach and four missn members, Gay alleged that officials vlated the Sunshe Law when they cid behd closed doors to fire cy attorney Ralf Brook, replacg him wh former cy attorney Tom Trask, a ploy to ph velopment stak this se are pecially high.

WILLIAM GAY VS. CITY OF MADEIRA BEACH

If a urt l Gay’s favor, a turnover Maira’s erng ranks would likely ’s bee a cy charter amendment, passed by voters 2019, requir missners who knowgly vlate the Sunshe Law to forfe their office. A Special Magistrate shall make the fal cisn ncerng forfeure of office if a Commissner requts a forfeure hearg, ” the charter Gay. [ Provid]Gay has fought and won a Sunshe lawsu agast the missn 2017, he brought plats agast the cy allegg that missners vlated the Sunshe Law when they ed a secret ballot procs to appot lol veloper Hoh Ghovaee to the missn 2016, and did not follow appropriate procr when approvg velopment plans for a large urt led Gay’s favor both s, fdg that the cy had vlated the law.

The cy paid Gay’s attorneys about $135, 000 legal fe.

WILLIAM G GAY MAIRA BEACH, AGE 79, MALE

He did not work wh the cy aga until his reappotment last the current lawsu, Gay pots to the prev lgs as ntext and builds his se around four public meetgs held April 2020 durg which Brook was fired and Trask rehired. “(The missn) vlated the Sunshe Law before, and they’re dog aga, ” Gay said. The terviews, therefore, should have been public at a public meetg, ” the lawsu the timeleWhile there isn’t explic documentatn the lawsu filed by Gay that missners discsed bs outsi of public meetgs, Gay’s argument leans on the fact that there were no public terviews or discsns prr to the vote as evince that a nsens on the hirg cisn had been formed outsi of the public’s plat also mak reference to ments ma by a missner that showed a direct dismissal of the law, as well as cg a memo left by former missner John Douthirt suggtg that the four named fendants vlated open meetgs requirements when they terviewed of the meetgs and mut ced the lawsu were reviewed by the Tim.

”Gay said that’s part of the reason he feels so strongly. They do pretty much whatever they want, ” Gay said.

WILLIAM GAY

Attorney Marcy LaHart, who is reprentg Gay, lled the motns an act of “pettifoggg.

Maira Beach retiree Bill Gay has already won three urt battl challengg cisns ma by his cy officials unr the guidance of the Trask Daignelt law, a lawsu he filed recently agast the cy of Duned, Gay is a faiar posn — challengg a small Pellas County town reprented by the same Clearwater law firm. And, once aga, the issue is ernment latt su, filed May 20 Pellas County circu urt, alleg Duned officials vlated Florida’s Sunshe Law January when they settled a legal dispute wh a rint whout a public Gay says lol ernments should be "open and hont stutns, ” but that "has not always been the se. [ Courty of Bill Gay]"Thgs have to be done the public view and not behd the scen, ” said Gay, who spent 30 years management nsultg, cludg for lol ernments, before retirg to Maira Beach.

The cy hired a crisis public relatns policy that allowed such actns was ed “on the advice and wh the assistance of Trask Daignelt, ” acrdg to Gay’s lawsu. Gay, his lawsu, scrib as a move by Duned to “stop the embarrassment" and avoid more exposure of the se’s “lack of mer. Acrdg to billg notatns ced Gay’s lawsu, law partners Tom Trask and Jay Daignelt negotiated and nclud a $40, 000 settlement wh Allen January whout a public your days wh HaySubscribe to our ee Stephely newsletterColumnist Stephanie Hay will share thoughts, feelgs and funny bs wh you every ’re all signed up!

BILL GAY FLORIDA

Explore all your optnsBillg notatns show Daignelt nsulted over the phone wh Duned Cy Manager Jennifer Bramley and ma lls to each cy missner about the his lawsu, Gay alleg this closed-door settlement vlated the Sunshe Law, which requir that meetgs which public bs is discsed are to be advertised and open to the a phone terview, Daignelt nfirmed the settlement was reached whout a public meetg but said the cy charter giv the cy manager the thory to execute agreements that do not volve policy cisns. Attorney Tim Weber, who is reprentg Gay, argu cy policy was at play bee the cy had to drop a enforcement lien and ci to award $40, 000.