City Manager Frank Parker was given the go-ahead Tuesday to hire an attorney for an impending court hearing involving the City of Statesboro. In an executive session during a scheduled council meeting at city hall, council members agreed to enlist the services of Savannah-based attorney Patrick O’Connor to represent the city in a Nov. 1, Bulloch County Superior Court hearing. “I am going to, on my authority, make [O’Connor] our attorney for this case,” said Parker.