Long Branch City Council moves to adopt Resolution R-09-25 to enter executive session

The Long Branch City Council moved to adopt Resolution R-09-25 and enter an executive session to discuss matters protected by attorney–client privilege and an administrative update, the meeting transcript shows.

The meeting opened with a roll call in which council members identified as "Mister Rassus" and "Missus Winnis" were recorded as present, "Mister Dangler" and "Mister Vogue" were recorded as absent, and a speaker identified as "Doctor Vogue" and another identified only as "Glenn" were noted as present. The presiding official also stated, "I hereby certify that this meeting has been published in the newspaper in accordance with the Open Public Meeting Act and posted as required by law." The presiding official then asked for a motion to close the public portion of the meeting; members voted in favor and the public portion was closed.

After closing the public portion, the presiding official asked for a motion to adopt Resolution R-09-25, "Be resolved that the city council will go into executive session to discuss the following." The topics listed in the transcript were "attorney client privilege" and "the administrative update." The transcript records the motion and a second but does not include a roll-call vote tally for the resolution; it records members saying the motion was seconded and proceeding toward a vote.

The transcript does not include further public discussion of the matters to be considered in executive session. By state open-meetings rules, executive sessions are closed to the public when they involve attorney–client privileged communications; the transcript does not detail the substance of the administrative update cited in the resolution.

No additional votes or ordinance numbers were recorded in the portion of the transcript provided.