Tuscaloosa City Council adopts minutes, moves into executive session on security and real property

The Tuscaloosa City Council adopted the minutes from its previous pre-council meeting by voice vote and then approved a motion to enter an executive session to discuss security plans and certain real-property matters.

The minutes were adopted after a motion and a voice vote: “All in favor, say aye. Aye,” the council recorded. No individual vote tally or roll-call names are recorded in the transcript.

City Attorney (unnamed) read the statutory basis the council relied on for the executive session, saying the discussion would cover “security’s plans, procedures, assessments, measures, or systems with the security or safety of a person's structures, facilities or other infrastructure including without limitation information concerning critical infrastructure, the public disclosure of which could be reasonably expected to be detrimental to public safety or welfare, as well as to discuss the consideration the governmental body is willing to offer except when considering the purchase, sale, exchange, lease or market value of real property.”

After the basis was read, a motion to enter executive session was made and seconded; the council again approved the move by voice vote. The clerk and staff indicated the executive session would be held downstairs and that three items had been requested for the closed meeting.

The council did not take any public votes on the underlying items during the open session. The transcript records the procedural votes only (adoption of minutes and authorization of the executive session).