July 29, 2010 in Washington Voices

City attorney resigns

 

 Spokane Valley City Attorney Mike Connelly confirmed Tuesday that he submitted his resignation last week. His last day of work will be Aug. 20.

 He will be joining the law firm Koegen Edwards in Spokane and practice municipal law. “It’s a good opportunity,” he said. “I enjoyed being a city attorney and I’ll enjoy working in the private sector.”

 Connelly was in private practice for 20 years before being hired by the city of Spokane. He was there for five years before leaving for the job at the city of Spokane Valley, where he has also been for five years. Connelly said the new job opportunity came up and he didn’t want to miss it. “I do kind of miss private practice,” he said.

 Acting City Manager Mike Jackson said it has not yet been determined whether the city will hire a new attorney or whether the position would be filled by Deputy City Attorney Cary Driskell.

– Nina Culver
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  • liarsinnews on July 29 at 5:40 a.m.

    Lets see, was Connelly around when the city of Spokane sued Koegen at Perkins Coie, where Roy Koegen was bond attorney for so many years and lead the Lilac City down the prime rose path?

  • Sam_Smith on July 29 at 8:00 a.m.

    They finally did it. They have driven out the first one. The ‘gang’ has made things so miserable that the first manager has decided they can’t take it any more? But then they clearly don’t understand the role of City Attorney either. Members of the ‘gang’ determined before they were ‘hired’ it was the attoney’s fault that a city was sued, not the attorney’s job to help them keep from getting sued. But now they will be able to run out and find an attorney who will let them do whatever they want. They will not have to worry about state laws regarding clean air, ecology, GMA, the Comp Plan, open public meetings, freedom of speech or anything else that gets in the way of them being able to get the SARP out of their and their buddies way, or zoning or paving or anything else they don’t like or inhibits the growth of money in their pockets and the pockets of the people who paid to get them there, unless they could have afforded to do it themselves.

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