Outside attorneys for the City Council reached a deal April 20 with JEA Interim Managing Director and CEO Melissa Dykes to provide a sworn deposition in the investigation into the attempted sale of the city-owned utility.
WJCT News partner the Jacksonville Daily Record reports Rory Diamond, chair of the Council Special Investigatory Committee into JEA, announced the agreement April 21 at a virtual meeting of the panel, which includes Brenda Priestly Jackson and Randy DeFoor.
Diamond said the deal was reached after 1½ months of negotiations with Dykes’s attorney. Hank Coxe of Bedell, Dittmar, Devault, Pillans & Coxe confirmed March 30 that Dykes had retained his legal services.
Attorney Stephen Busey of Smith Hulsey & Busey, the Council's firm, will interview Dykes.
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