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Council/PEDC Meeting September 15, 2014 Page 14 envelope and he asked under what guidance I did that. Council Member Hashmi said he discussed it with the city manager and they put it under PEDC, because it was related to PEDC. He said at the time the city attorney said it was posted wrong and should be corrected. Council Member Hashmi said he then had it placed on the future agenda as a proper agenda item. Mr. Wilson asked about the people who were harmed in the investigation and who did not get a chance to speak with Mr. Defenbaugh. He said the night the anonymous letter was presented it was all about whether HWH got a 5.8 million dollar loan with $43.000 worth for collateral. He said the day before that meeting, the night the information was provided by Mrs. Barrentine that there was 7.75 million dollar worth of collateral and that appraisal was brought to the City and given to the City. Mr. Wilson also said he had a copy of the meeting video and could play it if they wanted, and that Ms. Lancaster said perhaps PEDC or HWH could bring this forward and could lay it out for them. He said Mrs. Drake said the same thing. Mr. Wilson said the city attorney was sitting there and let the entire conversation go forward without saying that was not true. He said he did not know whether Dr. Hashmi told the city attorney not to use that appraisal that night, but he knew the appraisal didn't come out to this Council. Council Member Grossnickle said he did not get the appraisal until Jordan Harper provided it to him in a ring bound notebook. Mrs. Clifford said she had a question about the appraisal. Mr. Wilson said the Council slandered and slandered the Harrison Walker firm and it was all over town and it was even in the newspaper as an editorial written by Judy Battle on the 7th before they had the meeting and announced it on the 10th. He said he could not understand how they proceeded under false accusations with an anonymous letter that was not true and yet spent 50,000 or directed Mrs. Clifford to go out and hire an investigator when Dr. Hashmi already knew the outcome... Council Member Hashmi told Mr. Wilson not to say that, because he had already clarified the timeline. He told Mr. Wilson to not make a false accusation, and that he did not stop anyone from giving documents to anyone. Council Member Hashmi said he never mentioned the name HWH at any point, not once, that he did not slander them and the first time the name of HWH was mentioned was by Council Member Grossnickle. He also said if he knew the allegations were true they would not have had to investigate. Council Member Hashmi said he did not waste $50,000 as the Council voted to request PEDC to get a firm to investigate and PEDC could have voted not to do that. Mr. Wilson asked Mr. McIlyar to come forward and said he had a conversation with Mr. McIlyar on Friday. Mr. McIlyar confirmed that Mr. Wilson came to his office. Mr. Wilson said Ms. Barrentine showed Mr. McIlyar the appraisal and that she remembered he asked her to make nine copies for the Council. Mr. McIlyar said he double checked with Ms. Barrentine to make sure there was no appraisal related to the 2010 project, because it had been placed on the Agenda. He said Ms. Barrentine told him she was out of town at a conference and the first time she would be able to get with him was Monday, the day of the Council meeting. Mr. McIlyar said on the same day of the Council meeting he was at the smoking task force committee meeting that lasted up until the Council meeting and he did not believe he got those reports. Mr. Wilson confirmed Ms. Barrentine took the copies to his office. He asked Mr. McIlyar if he saw the appraisal when he went to Ms. Barrentine's office that day