City Councilor David Sinclair said he was “surprised and disappointed” by Wednesday’s 7-1 vote not to allow an investigator access to details of a disputed building sale.

“However, I am hopeful and optimistic that the rest of the City Council will experience a change of feeling on this issue, and allow the executive session information to be made available,” he said.

Even without the executive session information, Sinclair still sees a purpose to the investigation.

“I still think it makes sense,” he said Thursday. “We need someone to assemble all the documents that are public, and be able to determine who had information and who didn’t, and when. Once all the information is in one public document, people will be able to judge it for itself.”

He gave the example of an email that had been sent prior to the closing, urging the closing be postponed until certain information was provided.

The email was sent to City Councilor Chairman Bernie Wyman, and copied to many other people, but Wyman later said he had never received the email.

“Once all this information is available, the public can make its own determination,” he said.

Sinclair, a Ward 6 councilor, said he believed the city would receive swift direction from the attorney general’s office about the direction Bath should take with regard to the investigation.

“I would have no objection to the attorney general’s office appointing someone to do the investigation, nor do I believe anyone else should,” he said. “However, I don’t know if that is something the AG’s office would want to get into.”

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