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Commission retires to executive session to discuss land-sale negotiations west of landfill
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Summary
The City Commission moved into executive session to discuss negotiation strategy and provide instructions to the city attorney regarding potential contracts for sale of city-owned land west of the landfill; multiple prospective buyers were named.
The Fargo City Commission recessed into an executive session at the end of its May 27 meeting to discuss negotiation strategy for potential city land sales west of the landfill. The session was authorized under North Dakota law and the commission cited statutory provisions when making the move to closed-door deliberations.
City staff identified the legal authority on the record as North Dakota Century Code provisions related to economic development records and negotiation strategy. The commission said discussing pricing and negotiation strategy in public would have a negative fiscal effect on the city's bargaining position.
Staff named several potential contracting parties to be discussed in the executive session: Galvanizers, WFM Properties, Hazer Ventures, Scanning Properties, Thor Investments and ADR Properties. A motion to retire to the River Room for executive session was made and approved; no further details were disclosed when the public meeting reconvened.
