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Pueblo County commissioners enter executive session for legal advice on regional building agreement and Comanti Corp. contract
Summary
At a May 22 BOCC work session, Pueblo County officials voted to enter an executive session to receive legal advice under Colorado law about a regional building department agreement and an amendment to a real estate convenience agreement with Comanti Corp.; the public meeting included no substantive public deliberation on the agreements.
PUEBLO, Colo. — The Pueblo County Board of County Commissioners voted May 22 to enter an executive session to receive legal advice on a regional building department agreement and an amendment to a real estate convenience agreement with Comanti Corp., County Attorney Cynthia Mitchell told the board.
"I'm requesting an executive session with the board this morning for the purpose of receiving legal advice on specific legal questions," Mitchell said during the board's work session. She told commissioners the request was made under Colorado Revised Statutes section 24-6-402(4)(b).
The request covered two specific matters: the regional building department agreement and an amendment to a real estate convenience agreement with Comanti Corp., Mitchell said. No substantive public discussion of the agreements occurred before the board voted to convene the closed session.
County Manager Bena Genesio was present for the roll call and discussion; Commissioners Alma McPheeters, Zach Swearingen and Miles Lucero were listed on the attendance roll during the work session. After Mitchell's request, a motion to move into executive session was made and approved; the clerk recorded the ayes and the board went into executive session.
The board provided no additional public details about the legal questions to be discussed, the expected length of the executive session, or any next steps to be taken after the closed meeting. The work session record shows only the formal request, the statutory authority cited, a motion to convene the executive session and the board's affirmative vote to do so.
Because the board invoked the statutory exemption for confidential legal advice, the substance of the legal discussion is not part of the public record from this meeting. It is not specified whether the matters discussed in the executive session will return to a future public agenda for formal action or disclosure.
The meeting began at 10:01 a.m.; the executive session request and vote occurred within the opening items of the work session. No budget figures, contractual amounts, or implementation dates were discussed on the public record during the portion of the meeting captured in the transcript.
