GREENVILLE —
The Greenville City Council has chosen an attorney to represent the city in the ongoing litigation with L-3 Communications.
Mayor Steve Reid said the Council took a vote at the end of Tuesday’s special session.
“We named Bob Scott as our attorney in the settlement negotiations with L-3 and that is the only action we took,” Reid said.
The vote was 5-2, with Council members Dan Perkins and Velma Del Bosque-Hobdy voting against the measure.
The Council voted unanimously July 31 to propose a settlement agreement with L-3 Communications, in an effort to conclude the legal dispute between the two sides.
Under the agreement, the city and L-3 would enter into a separate agreement to resolve all existing claims between the two sides, after which L-3 would dismiss the pending lawsuits. The city would take no future action to subdivide the airport property without consulting with and obtaining the written approval of L-3.
The city also agreed that as long as L-3 operates the airport property, the city shall abide by the 1947 Surplus Property Act, the subject of the federal lawsuit filed by the company against the city and that the city would take no action to seek reconsideration of the airport’s property tax exemption.
The original suit L-3 filed in January 2011 against the city in the 354th District Court, which sought a temporary injunction based on a proposed replat of Majors Field Municipal Airport, remains pending an interlocutory appeal ruling from the Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas.
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