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Regular Council Meeting September 22, 2014 Page 7 thinking he would get the opportunity to come up. Mr. Anders apologized for not walking to the podium that night and saying there was an appraisal. He said he followed up via e -mail with Dr. Hashmi to let him know he was willing to sit down with him and the City Council about the appraisal, because no financial institution would loan 5.8 million dollars on a piece of property worth $40,000. Council Member Hashmi confirmed with Mr. Anders that he copied Council Member Frierson on the e -mail. Mr. Anders said he was trying to get to the point if it was an appraisal question, and that Dr. Hashmi told him there were other issues. Council Member Pickle said the tape reflected the appraisal was the issue with the majority of the Council at that time. Council Member Hashmi said that was Council Member Pickle's interpretation and there were four other Council Members that voted for it and inquired why he did not ask them about it. Council Member Pickle said it was not fair to ask them why they made the decision back then. Council Member Grossnickle said the main reason he voted against the audit was because the anonymous letter dealt strictly with this issue and nothing else was talked about. He said the credit cards had already been audited and corrections made. Council Member Grossnickle said they were dealing with the letter which really dealt with one issue and possibly involvement by Judge Biard. Council Member Pickle said in spite of, or as a result of the discussions they had heard he was going to ask the city attorney the same question he asked him the other night and he refused to answer because it included a member of the current City Council. Mr. McIlyar said it was the prior City Council. Mr. Pickle said no, he did not. Mr. McIlyar said he referenced that there were members of the City Council that were not on the current City Council. Council Member Pickle asked him if there was anyone that knew about the appraisal before they met at the City Council meeting that night. He wanted to know if any current or past City Council Members knew there was an appraisal prior to the Council meeting. Mr. McIlyar said as he told the Council at the meeting last Monday night, that he had an attorney - client privilege to Council Members whether they were current or former and there were two former City Council Members who were not on this current City Council. Mr. McIlyar said following Council Member Pickle's questions at the last meeting that he had spoken with Cleonne Drake and asked her if the remembered catching him between meetings and asking him if he knew anything about the anonymous letter agenda item. He said Ms. Drake said he told her that Shannon Barrentine that very day had found a 2010 appraisal report from Thompson Appraisal Service that was written for Community Trust Bank, that it was 80 pages long, that he did not have it with him and had not had a chance to review it. Mr. McIlyar said he asked Ms. Drake if she remember there being any other Council Members present and she told him no. Mr. McIlyar said that is what he had remembered as well, and the conversation lasted 15 -20 seconds. He said he had an e -mail that proved Ms. Barrentine took the appraisal to the legal department close to 5:00 p.m. that day and he was in the smoking task force meeting at that time. Council Member Pickle asked if he still had copies of those appraisals. Mr. McIlyar said he did have a copy of the Thompson Appraisal. Council Member Pickle said he was talking about the copies. Mr. McIlyar said he did not recall the number of copies that were dropped off at the legal department but several Council Members either picked up copies or he distributed copies to them. Ms. Barrentine said she made nine copies of the appraisal and delivered them to Billie Harris at 4:45 p.m. on March 10th. She said she specifically told Billie that Kent wanted them to distribute at the Council Meeting that night and please let him know, because she knew he was in another meeting. Ms. Barrentine said Kent