Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans STATE OF LOUISIANA No: 2018 03843 Division/Section: 1-14 - DEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ETAL ET AL versus THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS ETAL El AL Date Case Filed: 4/19/2018 NOTICE OF SIGNING OF JUDGMENT TO: Alexander H Bollag Esq 34447 404 S Jefferson Davis Pkwy New Orleans, LA 70119 Corwin M St Raymond Esq 1300 Perdido Street City Attorney’s Office New Orleans, LA 70112 31330 William P Quigley Esq 07769 Loyola Law School 7214 Saint Charles Ave New Orleans, LA 70118—3538 Monigue C Harden Esq 24118 2332 Dublin St New Orleans, LA 70118—1015 In accordance with Article 1913 C.C.P., you are hereby notified that Judgment in the above entitled and numbered cause was signed on July 2, 2019 New Odeans, Louisiana MINUTE CLERK /4 _____________________ •.4 CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA CASE NO. 18-3843 DIVISION “I” Section 14 THE SOUTHERN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, NC. d/b/a DEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, VAYLA NEW ORLEANS, JUSTICE AND BEYOND, 350 NEW ORLEANS, SIERRA CLUB, MR. THEODORE QUANT, AND MS. RENATE HEURICH VERSUS THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, THE UTILITY, CABLE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE OF THE NEW ORLEANS CITY COUNCIL, JASON R. WILLIAMS, HELENA MORENO, JOSEPH I. GIARRUSSO, JAY H. BANKS, KRISTIN GISLESON PALMER, JARED C. BROSSETT, AND CYNDI NGUYEN FILED: Deputy Clerk JUDGMENT Petitioners’ Amended Petition to Enforce the Louisiana Open Meetings Law, for Declaratory Judgment, Injunction, and Attorneys’ Fees and Costs came before this Court for hearing on July 19, 201$. Present at the hearing in court were: William Quigley, Monique Harden, Alexander Bollag, Susan Stevens Miller, and Jill Tauber, for petitioners; and Corwin St. Raymond, William Goforth, and Cherrell S. Taplin, for defendants. After considering the pleadings and memoranda filed with this Court, the evidentiary record, and the arguments of counsel, this Court announced its ruling in open court on June 14, 2019. The Court explained this judgment is to make sure that “citizens voices are heard” at City Council meetings. Regarding the February 21, 2018 meeting of the Utilities, Cable, Telecommunications and Technology Committee of the New Orleans City Council (“UCTFC”) and the March 8, 2018 meeting of the New Orleans City Council (the “Council”), the Court found that the Council “did nothing wrong.” The Court acknowledged the Council’s own investigatory findings that, as a result of Entergy New Orleans’ actions, “paid citizens were present” at public meetings held on October 16, 2017 and February 21, 2018. The Court further found that “Entergy’s actions undennined” the Open Meetings Laws, La. R.S. 42:11, et seq. Finally, the Court found that “the Open Meetings Laws were not adhered to as relates to the meaning and policy behind the Open Meetings Laws.” Regarding the February 21, 2018 meeting of the Utilities, Cable, Telecommunications and Technology Committee of the New Orleans City Council, the Court finds that the Open Meetings Law was violated. Regarding the March 8, 2018 meeting of the New Orleans City Council, the Court does not find that the Open Meetings Law was violated. However, the February 21, 2018 action was a necessary component of the full council’s decision to adopt Resolution No. 18-65. As such, the full council’s vote to adopt the resolution was void ab initio. IT IS ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that, for the reasons stated in open court on June 14, 2019, there be judgment in FAVOR of petitioners, The Southern Center for Environmental Justice, Inc. cl/b/a Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, VAYLA New Orleans, Justice and Beyond, 350 New Orleans, Sierra Club, Mr. Theodore Quant and Ms. Renate Heurich, and AGAINST defendants, The Council of the City of New Orleans, the Utility, Cable, Telecommunications, and Technology Committee of the New Orleans City Council, Jason R. Williams, Helena Moreno, Joseph I. Giarrusso, Jay H. Banks, Kristin Gisleson Palmer, Jared C. Brosseft, and Cyndi Nguyen; and IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED and DECREED that, for the reasons stated in open court on June 14, 2019, the action of the then-sitting members of the UCTTC at its February 21, 2018 meeting is VOID; and IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED and DECREED that, for the reasons stated in open court on June 14, 2019, the action of the then-sitting members of the New Orleans City Council adopting Council Resolution No. R-l 8-65 at a March 8, 2018 meeting is VOID. New Orleans, Louisiana, tins day of/t 2019. THE HO’ORABLE PIPER D. GR fiN DISTRICT COURT JUDGE, DIViSION “1” DEPUTY CLERK, CIVIL DISTRICT CrnIRT PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LA.