Concord Select Board holds executive session to discuss proposed CCRC overlay warrant article

The Town of Concord Select Board entered an executive session at 6:30 p.m. May 19 to consider the value of real property and to discuss the terms of a potential memorandum of agreement between the board and Deaconess Abundant Life related to a proposed warrant article for a continuing care retirement community overlay district ahead of town meeting.

The action came after a motion to open the executive session was made and seconded; the mover said the session was necessary because “an open meeting may have a detrimental impact on the negotiating position of a public body.” The board completed a roll call and recessed to closed session with a plan to resume open session at 7 p.m.

By law, executive sessions are closed to the public when discussion could harm the municipality’s negotiating position or when they concern the purchase, sale or value of real property. The Select Board did not disclose the substantive terms of its discussion or any agreement reached; no vote on a memorandum or on the underlying warrant article was recorded in the public portion of the meeting.

The board resumed public business at 7:10 p.m. and did not provide additional public details about the executive-session discussion during this meeting.