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Council Schedules Special Meeting, Enters Executive Session on Northeast Fort Collins Water Legal Issues
Summary
Fort Collins City Council scheduled a special meeting for Aug. 12 and unanimously approved an executive session to receive legal advice about potential litigation and federal, state and local law affecting water service in Northeast Fort Collins.
Fort Collins City Council on July 15 voted unanimously to call a special meeting for Aug. 12, 2025, starting at 5 p.m., and then immediately voted to enter an executive session to receive legal advice on water-service issues affecting Northeast Fort Collins.
At the dais a council member moved to call the special meeting under the city’s municipal code; the motion was seconded and passed 7-0. The stated purpose of the August 12 special meeting is to consider a motion to go into an executive session related to legal advice concerning federal grants.
Council then voted to convene an executive session under cited legal authorities to discuss specific legal questions related to potential litigation over water service in Northeast Fort Collins and the manner in which city policies, practices or regulations related to water service may be affected by existing or proposed federal, state or local law. The motion cited the City Charter (Article II, section 11), City Code section 2-31(A)(2), and Colorado Revised Statutes (section referenced during the motion) as the legal bases for the closed-session discussion.
The executive session vote passed 7-0; council announced there would be no further public business after the executive session. No substantive public details of the discussion were disclosed in open session because the matter was moved to closed session for attorney–client legal advice.
