The Local Government committee meets every third Tuesday of the month.  Our featured speaker for September (9/16) is Lynn Himes of Scariano, Himes and Petrarca CHTD.  Mr. Himes will present a topic on employment law entitled, “Limiting Employees to One Bite of the Discrimination Apple” which will feature a favorable decision his firm  received from the 1^st District Appellate Court enforcing collective bargaining agreement language requiring the employee to choose between filing a discrimination charge or filing a grievance.  Our featured speaker for the month of October (7/21) is from the firm  Whitted Takiff + Hansen LLC  and the topic will  address  obtaining records of students  and how the mental health act might be in play.