Nampa City Council approves amended agenda, votes to enter executive session on property negotiations

The Nampa City Council at a special meeting on March 24 approved an amended agenda adding an executive session and then voted to adjourn into that executive session under Idaho Code §74-206(1)(e) to consider preliminary negotiations involving trade or commerce and a possible acquisition of real property not owned by a public agency.

Councilmember Rodriguez, Councilmember Jankula, Councilmember Bills, Councilmember Reynolds and Councilmember Griffin recorded “yes” on the roll call when the council moved into executive session. The motion to adopt the amended agenda was made and seconded on the record but was not recorded by roll call in the transcript; the presiding officer called for the vote by voice. The motion to adjourn into executive session carried on the subsequent roll call.

The statute cited, Idaho Code §74-206(1)(e), authorizes an executive session for preliminary negotiations involving matters of trade or commerce when the governing body competes with other jurisdictions and seeks to acquire an interest in real property not owned by a public agency. The meeting transcript shows the presiding officer cited that statute when asking for the executive-session motion.

The meeting record also notes an inconsistency in attendance reporting: an earlier roll call in the meeting recorded “4 present, 2 absent,” while the later roll-call vote on the executive-session motion recorded five named “yes” votes. The transcript does not identify who moved or seconded either motion by name, and no substantive public discussion of the underlying negotiations or property was included in the public record provided.

After the roll call on the executive-session motion the presiding officer said the motion carries and the council recessed into executive session. No public details of the negotiations or property were disclosed in the transcript.