legal questions

It will be interesting to see what the City Attorney's position is on these handshake deals- does he approve of them? Did he approve of them in the past? If so, on what legal grounds? When did he know there were NO contracts and NO use agreements? Was he aware that there IS NOT now, and never HAS been, a relationship with the Optimists to avoid sales taxes on concession sales? How does this absence of contracts affect the City's liability exposure? Now that he knows there ARE no contracts, why did he NOT suggest to the Mayor and Council that contracts be put into place NOW, or as soon as possible? Has he ever offerred a legal opinion regarding the validity and enforcability of these handshake deals? If so, what WAS that legal opinion? On what legal basis was it formed? When did that happen? By doing nothing, or NOT suggesting any changes, he seems to be in tacit legal approval of the handshake process already in place, right?