DETROIT -- The Detroit City Council on Tuesday released a statement saying that it would consider conducting an independent investigation of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick for alleged perjury, provided the council's lawyers say it's OK.

The statement said that such an investigation would also need to wait until the full City Council was able to convene and all members given the chance to weigh in.

"Our vote against an open discussion today is not because we think there should not be one, but because we strongly believe that the president and all other council members should be in place prior to any deliberations," the statement said.

Tuesday morning, several local officials arrived at the Manoogian Mansion. Local 4 reported Detroit police chief Ella Bully-Cummings, Detroit fire Chief Tyrone Scott, Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams and Sharon McPhail all arrived at the mansion around 8:30 a.m.

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On Monday, Christine Beatty resigned from her position as Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's chief of staff.

In a letter to Kilpatrick, Beatty said her resignation is effective Feb. 8.

Beatty said she believes it is clear that she can no longer effectively carry out her duties.

"I painfully regret the devastation that the recent reports have caused to the citizens of Detroit, to my co workers, to the Mayor's family and to my family and friends," Beatty wrote in the letter.

Resignation: Beatty's Resignation Letter

Kilpatrick spokesman James Canning said the mayor's office had no comment on the resignation.

Speaking on the phone later to Local 4, Beatty refused to comment any further on the case, saying she said all she was going to say in her resignation letter.

The Detroit City Council released a statement regarding Beatty's resignation. In it addressed from council member Kwame Kenyatta states "I think it is unfortunate that the entire situation, which has riveted all eyes in the State on the City of Detroit and once again beckoned the negative attention of the entire nation, has come forward as it has."

"It has arguably created a crisis in leadership when the Mayor's Chief of Staff abruptly resigns, the Mayor himself has not been at his desk for the better part of a week, and many citizens are calling for his resignation," Kenyatta said in a statement. "Collectively, all of this created a crisis in leadership and begs the question as to whether the Mayor can perform his duties without distraction, and with integrity and the trust of the community intact."

He continues, "I believe that within the coming days Council will have to discuss its legal options as it relates to any past or future financial settlements involving personal decisions on behalf of the mayor and his former Chief of Staff."

Download complete: City Council Statement

Personal text messages between Kilpatrick and Beatty were obtained by the Detroit Free Press and publicly released Wednesday night. The sexually charged messages explicitly indicated that a relationship existed between them, despite their testimony last summer, during a police whistleblower trial, that they did not have a romantic relationship.

"I've been dreaming all day about having you all to myself for 3 days," reads one message sent by Kilpatrick to Beatty on Oct. 16, 2002, "relaxing, laughing, talking, sleeping and making love."

"I'm madly in love with you," Kilpatrick wrote on Oct. 3, 2002.

"I hope you feel that way for a long time," Beatty replied. "In case you haven't noticed, I am madly in love with you, too!"

On Sept. 13, 2002, the mayor wrote to Beatty: "They were right outside the door. They [the mayor's bodyguards] had to have heard everything..."

Beatty wrote back: "So we are officially busted! LOL"

Both Beatty and Kilpatrick denied a relationship existed when they testified in a whistleblower case brought by two former Detroit police officers who claimed they were fired for investigating the mayor's extramarital affair.

The officers were awarded $6.5 million by a Wayne County jury. In total, the case has cost the city more than $9 million.

Last Wednesday night, Kilpatrick released a statement to the media expressing his embarrassment at the release of the messages and asking the public to respect his family's privacy.

"These five- and six-year-old text messages reflect a very difficult period in my personal life. It is profoundly embarrassing to have these extremely private messages now displayed in such a public manner.

"My wife and I worked our way through these intensely personal issues years ago. I would now ask that the public and the media respect the privacy of my wife and children and of Christine Beatty and her children at this deeply painful moment for our families."

Beatty has hired Elliott Hall, a former chief assistant Wayne County prosecutor and Detroit corporation counsel, as her lawyer.

City spokesman James Canning said Friday night that Hall wasn't authorized to speak on Beatty's behalf and he was hired in case Beatty faces perjury charges.

Canning said city officials have taken the driver seat while Kilpatrick takes a few personal days off.

"The Mayor has capable deputy directors to lead our hardworking city workforce to continue daily operations of city government…Fires are being extinguished, trash is being picked up, police are arresting the bad guys. City government is fully operational."

Sheila Cockrel, a member of the Detroit City Council, said that the families must be going through a difficult time and urged sympathy for the children who are "impacted by these revelations."

However, Cockrel said, Kilpatrick needs to take responsibility.

"This is about leadership," Cockrel said, "and taking responsibility for our actions as elected officials is very important."

The president of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 207 says the union wants Kilpatrick to step down.

In a regular scheduled meeting Friday, the group collectively agreed the mayor needed to resign.

John Riehl, president of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 207, said the union wants the mayor to step down right away.

"He's compromised the public trust," Riehl said. "Nobody can believe a single thing he says from now on."

The union has 900 members and represents workers in the city's water and public lighting departments.

They will hold a public rally Wednesday at 4:15 p.m. outside the Coleman A. Young Municipal Building.

A Wayne County judge has ordered that Michael Stefani, the attorney who represented the two police officers who sued Kilpatrick and the city,Gary Brown and Harold Nelthrope to be deposed.

Stefani is being ordered to talk to a Free Press lawyer about what he knows about a reported secret agreement connected with the settlement.

"I can’t re-enter into a settlement agreement with the city, that has a confidential provision in it that prevents me from really discussing anything other that the fact that we settled the case in order to avoid the appeal,

Circuit Judge Robert Colombo Jr. also said he would require SkyTel, a Mississippi telecommunications company, to preserve the text messages.