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Commission recesses to executive session to discuss potential public-works property purchase; no binding action taken
Summary
The commission recessed Aug. 5 into a closed executive session under KSA 75-4319(b)(6) to discuss preliminary real-estate negotiations for public works purposes; commissioners reconvened and stated no binding action occurred.
The City Commission recessed into executive session Aug. 5 to discuss preliminary negotiations for the acquisition of real estate for public-works purposes. The motion read into the record cited KSA 75-4319(b)(6) as the statutory basis for the closed session and specified a return time to the open meeting. A motion to recess into executive session was made, seconded and approved in a roll call vote; the commission recessed for the stated period and later returned to open session. Mayor Karen McCullough stated explicitly after reconvening that no binding action was taken during the executive session and therefore no open-meeting vote was required. No further details about the property under consideration or negotiating positions were disclosed in open session.
