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Mr. Dennis E. Lyles Fort Lauderdale City Attorney 100 North Andrews Avenue Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301

Dear Mr. Lyles:

On behalf of the City of Fort Lauderdale, you ask substantially the following questions:

1. May a city agree through collective bargaining to remove counseling slips and written reprimands from an employee's personnel file and maintain such documents in a separate file pertaining to discipline?

2. May a settlement agreement in an employee grievance proceeding involving disciplinary actions provide that references to the initial proposed discipline be removed from the…