Former North Las Vegas City Manager Qiong Liu has agreed to pay nearly $300,000 to settle a yearslong lawsuit that alleged a conspiracy to remove her before the City Council fired her in 2018.

Councilmembers on Wednesday approved the $290,000 agreement to the lawsuit, which named former Mayor John Lee and Ryann Juden, the now-former city manager who replaced Liu after she was let go.

An attorney for Liu said the discussion was confusing because the city wasn’t a party to the 2020 suit.

“We are perplexed by the City Council agenda item,” attorney Andrea Champion wrote to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Champion said the agreement had already been green-lit by the former officials’ attorneys and didn’t require input from the city.

The city argued otherwise.

“Because of the nature of the

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