The curious case of the Ansonia Water Pollution Control Authority’s legal files is nearing a conclusion.
Last month a city attorney asked a judge to make the Authority’s former lawyer give back files from the WPCA he had allegedly kept for more than a year.
The city alleged the lawyer, John Androski, who has filed a complaint saying the WPCA fired him because of age discrimination, had kept the files despite repeated requests from the city to turn them over.
Androski said the WPCA still owes him more than $1,000 for legal work, and that he’d need time to go through all the files, which represent more than 10 years of his work on behalf of the sewer board.
A hearing was scheduled in the case for Tuesday at Superior Court in Derby, but didn’t go forward after Androski and Richard Buturla, a lawyer representing Ansonia, talked behind closed doors for about 15 minutes with Judge Theodore Tyma and Nunzio Parente, the chairman of the WPCA.
The parties emerged with a deal calling for the WPCA to pay Androski’s bill and for Androski to return the WPCA’s files within two weeks.
The case was still listed as pending Tuesday afternoon in the state Judicial Branch’s website, but will presumably be withdrawn once the WPCA retrieves the files.
Androski’s age discrimination complaint, filed last year with the state’s Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, remains pending.
