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Developer asks council for executive session on potential property purchase or exchange
Summary
A Sunproide representative asked the council to enter executive session to discuss a possible city property purchase or exchange, saying public discussion now would harm the city’s competitive negotiation position and proprietary information; the representative asked that the meeting be adjourned after the executive session.
A representative identified in the transcript as Mr. Morris, speaking for Sunproide, asked the Decatur City Council to go into executive session to discuss a proposed purchase or exchange of city property and related competitive negotiations.
Morris told the council that discussing the proposal publicly at this stage would harm the city’s competitive position and disclose proprietary or confidential trade information. He asked the council to listen in executive session and then adjourn without resuming the public meeting that day; he said that, if the council decides to proceed, the terms and any actions would be discussed publicly afterward.
Council members did not record a completed executive session vote in the excerpt. The request was presented during the public comments portion of the meeting; no formal action approving an executive session or any transaction was recorded in the transcript excerpt provided.
