Coachella Mayor Steven Hernandez will not attend the scheduled city council meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 12, and the elected officials present don't plan on discussing his recent criminal indictment, according to a statement released by a city spokesperson.

Hernandez was briefly jailed in late October , soon before an indictment was unsealed during a court appearance in which he pleaded not guilty to one felony count of conflict of interest, four felony counts of perjury and four misdemeanor counts of conflict of interest. He was present for the hearing at the Larson Justice Center in Indio but declined to comment on the charges.

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