Four Clinton residents will hold a public meeting Tuesday night about a 2008 lawsuit of the City of Clinton.
In 2008, a city fire fighter sued, claiming that his department was overstating ambulance calls to get more money from Medicare. In 2010, the city settled that lawsuit. The city is paying $4.5 million over 10 years to the federal government in that settlement.
A year later, Clinton residents Mary Nitschke, Ed O'Neill, Rick Hale, and Larry Ketelsen made an open records request for all the information handed out during closed-door city council meetings that dealt with that settlement. Their lawsuit, on the Quad City Times website, claims that City Attorney Jeff Farwell "resisted" releasing that information.
Since then, O'Neill says his group has gotten information back from city workers. He told us his group has spent the past 16 months combing through that information.
The group could release some of that information from the settlement Tuesday. That meeting starts at 6:45 p.m. at the Ericksen Center on 11th Avenue.