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Pueblo County commissioners move into executive session to receive legal advice on multiple matters
Summary
The Pueblo County Board of County Commissioners voted to enter an executive session March 4 to receive legal advice and discuss contract negotiations, procurement questions, a PUC rate case, security details for a county building and a contractor dispute.
The Pueblo County Board of County Commissioners voted to enter an executive session Tuesday, March 4, to receive legal advice and discuss several matters the county attorney said required closed deliberation.
Cynthia Mitchell, Pueblo County attorney, asked the board “for the purpose of receiving legal advice on specific legal questions under Colorado Revised Statutes §24-6-402(4)(b),” and listed topics the attorney said would be discussed in the closed session, including a possible amendment to an agreement with Comanche Corp.; a complaint about social-media activity; county procurement rules; the Black Hills PUC rate case; positions and negotiation strategy related to a proposed contract with the city for Sky Corral; and “specialized details of security arrangements or investigations” concerning the Government Services Building parking lot at 229 West Twelfth Street and a contractor dispute.
After Mitchell’s request, a commissioner asked for a motion to go into executive session. A motion was made and a second followed; the clerk recorded two vocal “ayes,” and the board recessed into executive session. The meeting transcript does not name who moved or seconded the motion, nor does it record individual roll-call votes.
The executive session was requested under state law allowing government bodies to receive legal advice and to discuss negotiation strategy and security details in private. The board did not discuss the listed topics in public at the time the motion passed; the transcript shows only the reasons cited for the closed meeting and the subsequent motion and vote to enter executive session.
Commissioners Halla McPheeters, Zach Swearingen and Miles Lucero were listed as present; Genesio, county manager, and Cynthia Mitchell, county attorney, also participated in the session call. The public record in the transcript ends when the board went into executive session; no substantive public deliberations on the underlying topics appear in the transcript segment provided.
The board’s actions on the substantive items cited — any amendments, negotiations, findings from the complaint, procurement actions, or security measures — are not recorded in the public transcript and would appear only in later public minutes or reports if and when the board takes public action.
