CHARLOTTESVILLE (WINA) – Charlottesville City Council will be busy Monday before their regular meeting interviewing City Manager candidates in closed meeting that afternoon. Just as a meeting interviewing candidates last week was followed by no comment or vote, this is to be the same. However, an agenda item at Monday evening’s regular meeting shows Council will vote on the nomination by interim City Manager Michael Rogers of a new City Attorney.

UVa law grad and — until January — Chesapeake City Attorney Jacob Stroman will be considered by Council to replace Lisa Robertson who resigned in December is is now a deputy county attorney in Prince William. He’s also served stints as county attorney Spotsylvania, Isle of Wight, and Gloucester.. and was chief staff attorney at the Virginia Supreme Court for one year.

According to the Virginian-Pilot, disagreement with Chesapeake’s mayor and some city councilors over a Freedom of Information case led to Stroman’s departure. The case involved a planning commissioner who wanted to be appointed as an interim City Councilor last year, who learned two documents were circulated about him a closed meeting discussing him. He filed a FOIA request for the documents and was only provided a photo of the front pages… that after being told the city did not have the documents. Stroman had advised the mayor and council the law required providing the documents or be sued.

When he resigned in January, the city had not provided the documents, and the planning commissioner sued.