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Columbia County meeting to enter executive session under ORS 192.660 for exempt records and property negotiations
Summary
Meeting officials announced the county will move into executive session under Oregon law to consider records exempt from public inspection and to deliberate real property negotiations; media may attend but must not disclose deliberations.
Columbia County officials announced they will enter an executive session under Oregon Revised Statutes 192.660(2)(e) and (f) to consider information exempt by law from public inspection and to conduct deliberations with persons designated by the governing body for real property negotiations.
The announcement, read aloud at the meeting, said representatives of the news media and designated staff would be allowed to attend the executive session but asked all other members of the audience to leave the room, hang up calls, or leave the virtual meeting. The facilitator said, “No decision may be made in executive session.”
ORS 192.660(2)(f) permits a governing body to consider information exempt from public inspection; ORS 192.660(2)(e) permits deliberations with persons designated to carry on real property negotiations. The meeting notice said the open session would resume after the executive session and that the audience would be welcomed back at that time.
No motion, vote tally, or formal decision was recorded in the transcript excerpt. The public announcement limited reporting from media attendees to stating only the general subject of the session as previously announced and directed them not to disclose deliberations or specifics from the executive session.
The record did not specify the property or records to be discussed, the anticipated duration of the executive session, or which governing body members would participate. Those details were not specified in the transcript excerpt.
