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Plain City Council moves to executive session to consider property purchase
Summary
The Plain City Council voted to enter executive session under Ohio law to consider the purchase of property for public purposes; the session followed approval of a parks policy resolution and closed the public portion of the meeting.
After completing the public portion of the meeting and approving Resolution 399995, the Plain City Council voted to enter executive session pursuant to Ohio law to consider the purchase of property for public purposes. A motion to enter executive session was made and seconded and the chair called the roll with affirmative responses recorded.
Why it matters: Executive sessions to discuss property purchase permit the council to discuss negotiating strategy, price and other confidential details outside the public meeting; such sessions are subject to Ohio open-meetings law and must be reported in the public minutes with statutory citation.
The transcript records the motion and roll-call affirmations to enter executive session but does not record the details discussed in the closed session, any vote to authorize purchase, or subsequent public actions following the executive session. The council cited the statutory basis during the roll call as the relevant Ohio code section for property-purchase discussion.
Ending: The council entered executive session to discuss a potential property purchase; the public record does not include the content of the executive discussion or any final decision reached in closed session.
