April 15, 2007, 2:29AM LETTERS Former city attorney explains
In the dispute over the city's contract with the Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation, it appears that Mayor Bill White would have been spared the painful duty of confronting the center, not to mention the risk of discouraging future gifts to the city, if the legal department had done more thorough research of the facts surrounding documents called leases.
During the 1960s, the City Council wanted to accept the offers of several charities to use vacant city land for ...