Update, Dec. 13, 2024: We neglected to tell you in our rush to get this information out to you that we have an open records request pending on email communications between Council Member John Kirkland and City Attorney Alan Bojorquez regarding Bojorquez's employment status with the City. Stay tuned, buttercups! At the last Bastrop City Council Meeting held on Tuesday night, December 10, renowned city attorney, Alan Bojorquez, announced his resignation as Bastrop City Attorney. LIV obtained his letter of resignation from a public information request. We posted it here, and pulled these quotes from it:
"Given the current climate at City Hall, I have determined our present relationship is not sustainable.”
"With our ethical obligations in mind, our firm is proud of our ability thus far to competently, consistently, and objectively serve the configuration of fragmented relationships that have yielded a house divided. However, the time has come to acknowledge that the irreconcilable differences among the city’s leaders have placed me and my team in an untenable position."
We have not spoken with Bojorquez. But he is a human being and a very decent one. Bojorguez was interrogated by Council Members Cynthia Meyer and John Kirkland at approximately 32 minutes into the "mobbed" meeting on November 21st we wrote about here.
Fast forward to the City Council Meeting on December 10th. Ever the optimists, it appeared to us that everyone was settling down and being nice. However, when Bojorquez kindly gave his resignation comments (scroll to 1:58:02 minutes in the video), only Mayor Nelson, Cheryl Lee, and Kerry Fossler thanked him for seven years of steady and stellar service.
The silence of Council Members John Kirkland, Cynthia Meyer, and Kevin Plunket was deafening, City Manager Carrillo's half-second of perfunctory "thanks", included. It spoke volumes to us. They wanted him gone.
We in the Bastrop community are about to see what it means to have Bastrop City Attorney Alan Bojorquez out of the way.
In the next article, we’ll be covering the outrageous maneuver employed by Council Members Kirkland and Meyer at the next meeting on December 10th to, once again, silence Council Member Cheryl Lee.
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Other articles on this topic:
Aaron Sullivan, Austin American-Statesman here.
Amanda Cutshall & Sierra Martin, Community Impact News here.
Carol Spencer "Turmoil in the City" blog here.
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