A Petition for Temporary Restraining Order, Preliminary Injunction and Permanent Injunction was filed in St. Charles County Circuit Court Tuesday morning. St. Charles attorney Ronald J. Brockmeyer at the request of St. Charles City Councilmen, John Gieseke, Mark Brown, Joe Koester, and Councilwoman Dottie Greer filed the Petition.
The Petition was filed in response to the refusal of Allan Williams to refrain from acting as City Administrator after his contract expired and was not renewed for another year.
A hearing was scheduled for Thursday, December 15, 2005 but was postponed for a week because the attorney representing Williams is recovering from surgery. St. Charles attorney Claude Knight is defending Williams. Knight is the attorney representing the Citizens Empowerment Committee in their attempts to recall Councilman Mark Brown and Councilwoman Dottie Greer. He represents Adolphus Busch and his Great Rivers Habitat Alliance. Knight is the attorney who was caught placing unfavorable information on former St. Charles County Councilman Jeff Morrison in the mailbox of the First Capitol News. He also represented the Mayor in her lawsuit against a member of the City personnel commission. The member, who had been selected as part of a group to interview Robert G. Lowery, Jr. for the position of City Administrator, said in his letter, other members of the group had told him that no matter what the outcome of the interview the Mayor was not going to appoint Lowery.
Williams’s contract expired on December 1, 2005. In order for him to continue as City Administrator, Williams would have needed contract renewal, however, the bill to renew his contract failed at a November City Council meeting. Williams has refused to leave his office or release control of the City.
