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City leaders meet to hash out communication issues

Posted by Dale Liesch | Dec 12, 2018 | Latest, News | 0 |

“Productive” was the word of choice, following a day-long retreat to work on communication issues between the Mobile City Council and Mayor Sandy Stimpson.

Despite a looming hearing in a lawsuit Stimpson filed over the council’s attempt to hire its own spokeswoman, the mayor and councilors both seemed chipper about the results of the meeting where they reportedly played games and discussed a way to cultivate a more civil discourse in the future.

“It was a very productive day for me personally,” Stimpson said. “All eight of us can agree that we learned something. It was an opportunity to realize that only mindset prohibits us from working together.”

Council Vice President Levon Manzie called the retreat a “productive exercise” and said there aren’t many divisions between the two sides.

“Most of our differences are not based on personality,” Manzie said. “Most of our differences are political.”

Councilman John Williams said he and his colleagues hope this effort to work together is not just an act.

“Hope is appropriate this time of year,” he said, standing in front of the Government Plaza Christmas tree. “We hope we can work together.”

The daylong planning session and retreat started at 9:30 a.m. and ended at 4 p.m., according to a statement from Stimpson’s office.

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Dale Liesch

Dale Liesch

Dale Liesch has been a reporter at Lagniappe since February 2014. He covers all aspects of the city of Mobile, including the mayor, city council, the Mobile Housing Board of Commissioners, GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico and others. He studied journalism at The University of Alabama and actually graduated in 2007. He came to Lagniappe, after several years in the newspaper industry. He achieved the position of news editor at The Alexander City Outlook before moving to Virginia and then subsequently moving back a few years later. He has a number of Alabama and Virginia Press association awards to his name. He grew up in the wilderness of Baldwin County, among several different varieties of animals including: dogs, cats, ducks, chickens, a horse and an angry goat. He now lives in Midtown Mobile with his wife, Hillary, and daughter, Joan. The family currently has no goats, angry or otherwise, but is ruled by the whims of two very energetic dogs.

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