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Volunteers are still fundraising for the nearly $300,000 legal bill Mayor Naheed Nenshi incurred while battling a $6-million defamation lawsuit, the mayor confirmed Tuesday.

It’s been nearly a year since the city solicitor said last May that Nenshi would raise money to pay back the city for a $299,728.59 invoice he incurred while fighting a defamation lawsuit filed by home builder Cal Wenzel in 2013.

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“People are out in the community fundraising and I’ll have an update,” Nenshi told reporters Tuesday when asked about the status of the tab, echoing what he said in a year-end interview with Postmedia in December.

“It’s challenging for me because the ethics adviser has suggested I can’t be involved in it and I’d really like to just know what’s going on, but I understand the work is still going on,” Nenshi said Tuesday.

The two-year spat between Wenzel and Nenshi didn’t go to trial and instead ended when Nenshi and the founder of Shane Homes issued a joint statement in late 2015. The statement saw Nenshi apologize and retract comments he made on a radio show during the 2013 municipal election campaign, which characterized Wenzel as a fictional mob boss.