HOPEWELL — City Council will hold a special meeting Thursday evening to discuss candidates for city attorney.
Council is expected to convene and then go into closed session to discuss who will succeed Stefan M. Calos as city attorney. Once the closed session is complete, councilors will reconvene into an open meeting and announce either they have an appointee or need to continue discussions on the position.
Calos, a Hopewell native, and his law firm, Sands Anderson, have a contract with Hopewell to serve as the city’s top legal adviser. Last year, Calos announced his intent to step down from that position, but he agreed to stay on until the city hired his successor. In his resignation letter that was submitted to the council in July of 2017, Calos cited several incidences that "made it untenable" for him to continue serving as the city attorney.
One of the main incidences was a disagreement between Calos and one of the councilors over the necessity of Hopewell issuing a request for proposal for legal services before retaining Calos for that position.
Calos and his firm have represented Hopewell as city attorney since 2015.
The meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Municipal Building’s council chambers.