La Marque council to recess into executive session to review city manager applications

The La Marque City Council announced it would recess into an executive session to review applications and resumes for the position of city manager, a staff member said during the meeting.

The staff member said the council intended “to deliberate the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer — and that is the city manager,” and that the purpose of the meeting item was “to recess and go into executive session to review the applications and resumes for the position of city manager.”

The statement in the public record described the topic the council planned to address in closed session but did not record any hiring decision, vote tally, mover or seconder in the available transcript. The meeting segment indicates the council planned to review candidate materials in executive session; the transcript does not show any subsequent public action or final decision on appointment.

Because discussions and any votes on personnel matters were to take place in closed session, the public portion of the transcript contains only the announcement of intent to move into executive session and the stated subject matter (city manager applications and resumes). No statutes or other legal authorities were cited in the public remarks captured in the transcript.

The council did not provide a scheduled public follow-up or a timeline for when a hiring decision would be made in the portion of the record provided.