The Port Arthur City Council met in a special executive session Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, to seek legal advice on pending litigation, discuss procurement and real-property valuation and consider economic-development matters before reconvening with no action, Mayor Moses said.

The closed meeting began shortly after the 4 p.m. start of the special meeting; the council announced it would go into executive session at 4:04 p.m. Topics the council listed for closed discussion included: Section 551.071 (legal advice) concerning Bonita Brown v. City of Port Arthur, et al., cause number 8211149 in the 508th District Court of Jefferson County, Texas; a request by Council member Hamilton Everfield for legal advice on lobbying procurement; valuation of real property (Section 551.072); and economic-development projects identified as Carroll Canal and marina slips at Pleasure Island (Section 551.087).

"We have no action items coming out of executive session," Mayor Moses said after the council reconvened. The council then moved to formally close the executive session. Council member Frank moved to close the executive session; Council member Hamilton Everfield seconded the motion. The presiding officer called for the vote, the ayes were recorded and the council closed the executive session at 5:34 p.m.

The council did not announce any public decisions, votes on ordinances or contractual approvals tied to the items listed for closed discussion during the open portion of the meeting. The agenda items named in the executive-session notice were stated on the record before the private meeting began; the transcript shows no further public discussion or formal action on those items after the session ended.

The items noted on the executive-session agenda — the Brown litigation, the procurement issue raised by Council member Hamilton Everfield, valuation of real property and the Carroll Canal and Pleasure Island marina-slip projects — remain matters that, per the council’s statements, produced no action for the public record at the Oct. 21 meeting.