HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020CV116 - Stacy Lynne V. City Of Fort Collins, City Manager, City Attorney Carrie Daggett, Rachel Askeland And Karen Burke - 010 - Defendant's Witness ListDISTRICT COURT, LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO
Larimer County Justice Center
201 Laporte Avenue, Suite 100
Fort Collins, CO 80521-2761
(970) 498-6100
Plaintiff: STACY LYNNE
v.
Defendants:
CITY OF FORT COLLINS: City Manager City
Attorney Carrie Daggett, Rachel Askeland (Acting
Records Custodian), Karen Burke (Records Custodian)
COURT USE ONLY
Andrew W. Callahan, #52421
WICK & TRAUTWEIN, LLC
P.O. Box 2166
Fort Collins, CO 80522
Phone: (970) 482-4011
Email: acallahan@wicklaw.com
John R. Duval, #10185
Christopher Van Hall #50660
FORT COLLINS CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
P.O. Box 580
Fort Collins, CO 80522
Phone: (970) 416-2488/(970) 416-2082
Email: jduval@fcgov.com; cvanhall@fcgov.com
Case Number: 2020 CV 116
Courtroom: 3C
DEFENDANTS’ WITNESS LIST
COMES NOW, the Defendants, the City of Fort Collins, Carrie Daggett, Rachel
Askeland and Karen Burke, by and through counsel, and respectfully submit the following
Witness List for the hearing set for June 8, 2020 at 9:00 a.m.:
1. Karen Burke, Director of Human Resources for the City of Fort Collins.
Ms. Burke will testify on behalf of the City of Fort Collins as custodian of the records at
issue. She will testify as to the contents of employee personnel files, and that she considers the
Quarterly Performance Assessments (QPA) to be part of the personnel file. She will further
explain why this City uses QPAs in their ongoing employee assessments. She will discuss all
policies regarding QPAs, directions for the use of QPAs to managers and employees, and explain
how employees prepare the QPAs. She will also testify as to all documents produced in the
DATE FILED: May 26, 2020 3:35 PM
FILING ID: 7DA2BDCAE6892
CASE NUMBER: 2020CV116
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City’s response to Plaintiff’s original records request and the reasons for objecting to production
of the QPAs.
2. Noah Beals, Senior Planner, City of Fort Collins Development Review Department
Mr. Beals will testify as to his understanding of the purpose of the QPAs and to his
expectation that they are confidential.
3. Defendants reserve the right to elicit testimony from any of the witness identified and
called by Plaintiff.
Respectfully submitted this 26
th
day of May, 2020.
WICK & TRAUTWEIN, LLC
By: s/Andrew W. Callahan
Andrew W. Callahan, #52421
Attorneys for Defendants
and
John R. Duval, #10185
Christopher Van Hall #50660
FORT COLLINS CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
P.O. Box 580
Fort Collins, CO 80522
CERTIFICATE OF ELECTRONIC FILING
The undersigned hereby certifies that a true and correct copy of the foregoing
DEFENDANTS’ WITNESS LIST was filed via the Colorado Courts E-Filing System and
served this 26
th
day of May, 2020, on the following:
Stacy Lynne
305 West Magnolia Street #282
Fort Collins, CO 80521
Served via email to stacy_lynne@comcast.net & U.S. Mail.
s/ Jody L. Minch
[The original certificate of electronic filing signed by Jody L. Minch is on file at Wick &
Trautwein, LLC)