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investigated the matter, ultimately finding that council was within its right to hold a closed meeting as it was a personnel matter involving a city employee, but criticized many of the councillors in his final report for refusing to cooperate with his investigation. As a result of Marin's report,
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meeting about whether to renew Bigger's contract for a second three-year term; during the meetings, they took the unusual step of deciding to hire an outside auditor to audit Bigger's office. Bigger's contract was renewed, but several citizens of the city filed a complaint with the
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further controversy when, rather than hiring or contracting a temporary auditor general to continue audit operations during Bigger's leave of absence, it simply suspended the office and reassigned Bigger's assistant, senior auditor Vasu
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several weeks after having registered as a candidate, citing the need to spend more time with his family due to the declining health of his mother.
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