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Committee convenes two closed sessions on tower leases and property purchase; no public action taken
Summary
The Public Works Committee voted to go into two closed sessions — one to discuss tower lease terms and another to consider a potential county property purchase — and later reported no action taken in at least one closed session.
The Sawyer County Public Works Committee twice voted to convene closed sessions during the meeting under state law governing closed meetings, first to discuss lease terms for county-owned tower properties and again to consider a potential property purchase for county facility expansion.
The clerk called the roll for the first closed-session motion, with recorded affirmative responses from Ron Kinsley, Mark Hellwig, Randy Newman, Chuck Van Natten (recorded spelling variant), and Jim Evans (participating remotely). The committee moved into a closed session to discuss existing lease agreement terms for county tower properties and to consider extension and negotiation strategy necessary to protect the county’s bargaining position.
Later in the agenda the committee again approved a motion to return to closed session to deliberate a potential purchase of property for county facility expansion. After those closed sessions, the chair reported that no action was taken in closed session on at least one of the listed matters.
Because both items were discussed in closed session under the statutory exception for bargaining and competitive reasons, committee members did not discuss the substantive negotiation positions or terms in open session. The meeting minutes record the roll-call votes to convene closed session and a later statement that no action was taken while the committee was in closed session.
