Pueblo County commissioners move into executive session to get legal advice on contracts and motorsports park negotiations

PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. — The Pueblo County Board of County Commissioners voted Thursday to convene an executive session to receive legal advice and discuss contract negotiation strategy, County Attorney Cindy Mitchell said.

At the start of the request, Mitchell told the board she sought the session under the Colorado Revised Statutes governing privileged legal communications and strategy in negotiations, citing C.R.S. §24-6-402(4)(b) and (e). She listed topics for the closed session: legal advice on an on-call policy for the county; a potential public-private partnership with the city related to Pueblo Motorsports Park; and positioning and strategy for contract negotiations concerning a Workday consultant and a contract with the West Park Fire District.

A motion to go into executive session was moved and seconded; commissioners responded “aye” and the chair announced the board was in executive session. The transcript does not record a roll-call vote by name in public record; the clerk’s motion and second are not attributed to named commissioners in the available transcript.

Why it matters: Executive sessions under the cited Colorado statute allow the board to receive privileged legal advice and to develop negotiation strategy out of public view. The matters listed—policy interpretation, a proposed public-private partnership and multiple contract negotiations—could have legal and budgetary implications depending on outcomes reached after the closed session.

County Attorney Mitchell requested the session at the meeting’s close of the open work session; no substantive closed-session outcomes were recorded in the public transcript provided.