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72 <br />1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />of the meeting? <br />A No. <br />Q Mr. Thomas -- <br />THE COURT: No, he wasn't, or no, you won't <br />tell us? <br />THE WITNESS: No, I did not find him to be <br />disrespectful at that meeting. <br />THE COURT: Okay. <br />BY MR. AMUNDSEN: <br />Q Mr. Thomas, can you tell me if you have had any <br />conversations with the city attorney in regards to the <br />commission's quorum standard? <br />A Actually, yes. That would have been the year <br />starting in 2014 when the city attorney prepared a letter <br />response to the questions and first addressed the issue <br />of the quorum not being enough to perform our duties. <br />When he brought up the issue of full complement, I <br />started researching that question because I wasn't aware <br />of any such requirement. He referenced a 1950s Attorney <br />General's opinion that he felt was substantial enough to <br />require for certain business to be conducted that we have <br />a full complement of members, not just a quorum. And so <br />I found in some research that there was an April 27, 1961 <br />Attorney General's opinion by Walter Mondale where, <br />clearly, it wasn't answering that question specifically, <br />