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1975H ffHWTHE LARGEST JAPANESE GARDEN RESTAURANTS EAST OF THE ORIENT DANCING NIGHTLY MAS HAMASU AND ALCAN TRIO NIGHTLY TUE-SAT. IAmnkm CaMat he's an elected officer but I dont believe I have proper (legal) counsel. "I recognize their (the audience's) frustrations," Woolfolk said. "And I hope they recognize my frustration as a city councilmaa I have the same apprehension you have. But the city attorney is an elected official and the City Council doesnt in fact have any authority over him.

"If I felt the advice from his office was completely competent, I wouldn't hesitate to deal in any area. But I must satisfy myself the legal information I get is proDer." he said. (Blair said Wednesday morning he only heard "the tail end" of Woolfolk's comments and would not comment on them until he read the minutes of the meeting.) Still unclear at that point in the meeting was whether Blair would pursue the request for a writ Stating that further discussion should be held publicly rather than in executive session, to the applause of the audience, Woolfolk said it was his opinion that if "the council does nothing, then the city attorney is bound to do his duty. It's his decision to make." Lim asked Blair if persons would not be subject to disciplinary action even if they should hold an unauthorized press conference and refuse to accept an assignment an act he said, of insubordinatioa "There must be a change in city policy, because the board reinstated the chief, which seems to me to have negated the charges which the board sustained," he said. Blair said each such case would have to be handled Please Turn to Page 9, CoL 1 OF TOKYO I 8849 FIRESTONE BOULEVARD DOWNEY 771-487r 869-1171 1 IT A tail WHITTIER Choose tKEthfifat home At makes you up a av- Ethan -oi0rs from a each at one iow kft m-j Af mm a W-f" rol, arms bolster Pillows.

POLICE CHIEFS FUTURE CLOUDY Continued from First Page his vocal support for Lim's decision to fire Cochee, the council has not until now been directly involved in the issue. The board's decision Sunday to order Cochee's immediate reinstatement, many persons thought, effectively put an end to the issue. Cochee said Monday he was "generally pleased" with the outcome, and pledged to "cooperate" with his superiors, "whomever they may be." But Cochee was not to return to the chiefs office until Wednesday morning. Lim said he could not return Cochee to his office Monday morning since he had not received the board's official "findings of fact and conclusions of law." Personnel Board Chairman Maxcy Filer personally delivered that notice to Lim shortly after noon Monday. Lim attempted for several hours to reach Blair for a legal opinion of the order, and late Monday afternoon Blair arrived in Lim's office to review the board's decision.

1 needed the city attorney's advice on how to handle the matter, since in my mind there were some apparent discrepancies," Lim said. Blair met privately for two hours with Ira Kaufman, who had been contracted by the city to handle the case apparently to consider whether the city should seek court action to block the Personnel Board's decision. At nearly 7 p.m., Blair called in Lim, attorney Benjamin Wyatt who had represented Cochee during the hearings, and a Times reporter. Blair announced he was going to file the writ at 2 p.m. Tuesday, and advised Lim not to reinstate Cochee Tuesday morning pending that court actioa Wyatt then left the meeting, threatening to file his own writ to force Cochee's reinstatement on the grounds that Lim could not disobey the board's order.

Blair then left the room himself, talked to Wyatf in a hallway and returned to Lim's office, advising the city manager to reinstate Cochee Tuesday morning "pending the outcome of the writ" Cochee met Lim Tuesday morning in what Lim termed a "conciliatory meeting," when reportedly the two mutually agreed that Cochee should "take the day off" with pay until the court decided on the request by the city for a writ. Both Wyatt and Cochee arrived in court at 2 p.m. to hear the matter, but were told by a Compton deputy city attorney, there for another case, that Blair was unable to meet the 2 p.m. deadline. A disgruntled group of Cochee supporters appeared at Tuesday's City Council meeting, demanding the council members fire Lim and pressing both Lim and Blair to determine which man sought the writ Blair, describing his meeting with Kaufman, Lim and Wyatt the night before, told the audience it was his "duty to uphold the city charter," and that he advised Lim to reinstate Cochee Tuesday morning.

Blair did not indicate at the council meeting that he had originally advised Lim Monday night not to reinstate the chief. Asked who made the decision to file the writ Blair stated and repeated several times that the decision "was made after a discussion with the city manager," leaving the question unanswered as to whether Lim had asked that a writ be sought Such a request by Lim would have been in violation of the city charter a point the audience used in its criticism of Lim. Only after continual pressure from Mayor Davis did Blair finally state that "I informed him (Lim) that I thought there were grounds for a writ" Lim, appearing to become increasingly frustrated with Blair's responses to the question and in a move to defend himself, stated there were witnesses to that Monday night meeting who could verify the fact that he did not ask that a writ be filed. Members of the audience, parading up to the podium one by one, grew more critical of Blair's handling of the Cochee matter, including his hiring of Kaufman, previously a private attorney, to serve as the city's primary attorney before the Personnel Board. Said Charles DeCosta: "Why didnt Blair handle the case, or one of his two deputies? Why did somebody here take our money and throw it down the drain (in hiring a private attorney)?" Blair acknowledged he "didnt personally take a part (in the case) at the podium, but I did a great deal of backup work." Another person asked Blair "Why weren't you up front, defending the city?" Blair didn't respond.

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