Mayor Delton’s mayor explains why the city paid him almost $ 11,000

Delton paid for Anthony Sabatini’s lawyer nearly $ 11,000 for two separate issues related to the mayor of Santiago Avila, the younger.
The first reduction in checks on $ 5,000 for Sabatini lock was stated that it was a complaint against the State Prosecutor’s Office, which was subsequently declared unfounded.
The second was for representation during the Quasududa hearing in February, where the Commissioners accused the mayor of conscious violation of travel policy.

Deltoni residents and city commissioners questioned two payments totaling almost $ 11,000 by a law firm Mount Dora on behalf of the mayor Santiago Avila, younger.

Last month, Avila collided with the statement that he deliberately violated the city’s travel policy when he brought his wife to Washington, the District of Columbia, the President’s conference and inauguration, using a city car and spending about $ 1750 on city funds, mainly on a hotel. He justified the trip, saying that he was using the opportunity to meet with key legislators and a lobby to finance urban projects.

Avila’s lawyer hired to represent him, Anthony Sabatini, says a larger bill, $ 5,781.25. quasi-judicial hearing About violation of travel policy. While the authorized 4-3 votes found that he deliberately violated the policy, further measures had to be taken for further measures.

Another bill, a holder of $ 5,000, which was paid on December 20, 2024, concerned a complaint, which was filed by the former city commissioner to the State Prosecutor’s Office against Avila, Sabatini said in an interview on Thursday.

Sabatini said he believed that the complaint was filed by Dana McCul and/or Jodi Lee Stogrot, “Although we have never received 100% confirmation.”

Both McCul and Stock Denyed the complaint to the State Prosecutor’s Office, which did not immediately respond to Thursday at the request of the complaint.

Catherine Barker, Deltona City Communications Director, stated that the complaint was a statement of breaking the law on sunlight but there were no “cases”, and it was recognized as “not type.” According to her, the Sabatini lock of $ 5,000 went to the Quasuda hearing costs, $ 10,781.25.

Sabatini described the state prosecutor’s complaint as “completely unjustified” and thus rejected. “I was talking to the state prosecutor and that went.”

Commissioners are unaware of legal bills

Three city commissioners, Maritsa Avaskes, Dori Hoington and Nick Lulli said on Thursday that they were concerned about Billings, who became public on Wednesday after former commissioner David Sosa asked them.

Lulli said he did not know about the bills until Wednesday.

“I have never been explained to me that at any moment we would pay a lawyer’s meeting for the mayor for a lawyer of our own choice,” Lulli said.

He pointed to The previous claim He applied against the city and then Tom Burbanka participant. In this case, the lawyer from the city insurer defended the case.

“I will have it inconvenient to find these things by the media that calls me or citizens who send me the things they asked,” Lully said.

Avil-Eskquez said she was not aware of $ 5,000 in December, and it was not clear what statement was made against the mayor.

“We all, as commissioners, must sit there and listen to residents, and they enter their rights to be upset that the city has spent something that does not benefit the city,” she said.

Haington: “It can’t be both ways”

Haungton asked how Avila – who did not respond to the text looking for a comment – was able to choose her own lawyer Sabatini, a political ally and a former Republican deputy.

“It seems that until the mayor knows the policies of the city’s travel, he was certainly aware that his personal lawyer and friend could be paid with the help of urban funds,” Hoington said in the text.

She also pointed out the example of a burbank, where the city’s insurance company provided a lawyer.

“I heard that our city lawyers justified, giving the mayor a legal defender, assuming that he could potentially lose something at listening,” Hoington wrote. “However, it is my memories that they neglected both the statutes of the prosecutor’s general opinion and ethics that displaced local resolutions, and the city statute – clearly stating that the mayor cannot vote if he loses something.”

During the hearing to violate the policy of travel of Avila’s vote, it was determined in his favor.

“But at the listening of their justification, it has changed, claiming that it can vote because it will lose nothing,” Hoington wrote. “If it was the right then he had the right to both legal missions for city funds and allowed to vote at quasi-judgment?

“Either he stood to lose something or did not do it,” she said. “It can’t be both ways.”

Gemma Torchivia, a lawyer of the city, did not immediately respond to a call looking for comments on Thursday.

Sabatini: External lawyer is required for selected officials

Sabatini defended hiring, speaking in Florida, virtually all cities and districts hired beyond lawyers to represent the owners of offices when their rights were injured.

“They guarantee a lawyer under the city statute,” he said, “but the city prosecutor cannot play a role in it, because they technically conflict because they represent both members, the one who tries to take adverse measures against another, and then the one who tries to protect himself.”

Haington, Lulli and Avil-Exckery were among the commissioners who voted against the mayor during the hearings.

“It would be nice,” Lulli said, “… that the commission had a lawyer of his own choice, if it is as it should be.”

Residents who publish on Facebook Deltona Facebook on Thursday suggested a number of thoughts when one called for a joke, another publication of angry emotions, and others were critical of the commissioners for breaking policies against aviation, with one writing: “For all $ 1600, it is snow.”