Long Branch City Council votes to enter executive session under attorney-client privilege

At a regularly noticed meeting, the Long Branch City Council adopted Resolution R0125 to go into executive session to discuss attorney-client privileged matters and an administrator update concerning Administrator Shirley.

Council member Miss Servier, who certified that the meeting notice was published in accordance with the Open Public Meeting Act, announced the resolution and read its scope: “Be it resolved the city council will go into executive session to discuss the following. Attorney client privilege, administrator's update, administrator Shirley.” A motion to adopt the resolution was made and seconded; the council recessed into executive session on a voice vote with all present answering “aye.” Two members, Mister Bangler and Missus Widows, were recorded as absent during roll call.

The resolution’s stated subjects—attorney-client privilege and an administrator update—are exempt from public discussion under the authority cited earlier in the meeting. Miss Servier explicitly certified compliance with the Open Public Meeting Act before the council closed the public portion and moved to the closed session. The transcript does not record any further public debate about the substantive matters to be discussed in executive session, nor does it name the motion’s mover or seconder.

The action was procedural: the council approved entering an executive session. No formal decisions on the substantive matters were recorded in the public portion of the transcript provided.