Missing Records at City of St. Augustine's City Hall

Working on my monthly column for Out in the City, I requested two days ago the Marshall Burns Shade Meeting Transcript from June 2003. The City Attorney referred me to the Clerk's office. The Clerk's office was never provided with the Shade Meeting Transcript. Two days later, I'm still waiting on the Shade Meeting Transcript.Our City Police Department beat an African-American man, making him a C-4 quadriplegic.Our City agreed to pay him $2.5 million.Taxpayers are paying $1.5 million (in installments). Insurance paid $1 million.When a city settles a lawsuit, all Shade Meeting Transcripts must be made public.The people have a right to know.Is the City of St. Augustine still, as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "the most lawless" city in America? Our City Attorney is long on pejoratives, long on excuses but short on performance. We have a right to read the Shade Meeting Transcript, without further delay.The City Attorney's telephone number is 825-1052, area code 904.His name is JAMES PATRICK WILSON and he works for you (supposedly).We're waiting, Mr. WILSON. Let's see the Shade Meeting Transcript, please, sir, today. Thank you.