Dunwoody will pay $49,829 for its investigation into leaked information from a closed meeting last February.
On Friday, the city released details of its final bill from attorney Bob Wilson, the former DeKalb County District Attorney who headed the probe. Wilson's three-month investigation, contained in a 40-page report, named City Councilman Adrian Bonser and City Attorney Brian Anderson as the likely sources of the leaks.
Both deny the allegations.
Anderson agreed to resign last month and will receive two months severance with benefits amounting to $29,176.
Bonser is facing an ethics probe for her alleged part in leaking information from the Feb. 3 closed council meeting.
Discussions from that meeting contained in Wilson's report reveal that the city was contemplating selling portions of a 16-acre tract of land known as PVC Park to a developer who wants to build single-family homes and town homes on the site. The sale was to be part of a complex land deal in which the city would buy other property with the proceeds.
Details from the meeting appeared in a local newspaper the same week.
Both Bonser and Anderson have argued that the sale of government-owned land was not a proper topic for a closed meeting discussion. Bonser further stated that Wilson's report was sloppy and possibly politically motivated.
She has called the investigation a colossal waste of taxpayers' money.
Last week, the City Council discussed a request by the Ethics Board for an outside council to advise it on the Bonser investigation. While some expressed concern over the expense and necessity of hiring another attorney, council members agreed to vote on whether to authorize funding at the next council meeting June 26.
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