Scottsdale council moves into executive session to discuss security plans and contract negotiations

Mayor Lisa Boroski called the Feb. 18, 2025 special meeting of the Scottsdale City Council to order and invited a motion to adjourn into executive session to discuss two items: security plans and legal advice on personnel and a contract negotiation. "I now call the 02/18/2025 city council special meeting and possible well, definite executive session to order," Boroski said during roll call.

Borowski (sic) [Note: transcript spelling preserved above in quote] proposed the motion to adjourn into executive session to "discuss and consult with designated representatives of the public body in order to discuss security plans, procedures, assessments, measures, or systems relating to or having an impact on the security and safety of buildings, facilities, operations, etcetera maintained by the public body," and to "discuss and consult with the city attorney for legal advice, with the city's designated representatives to consider its position, regarding city employees, a contract that is the subject of negotiations, specifically Stell Road and Joe Max to Dixiletta in Provence." A council member said, "So moved." Another said, "Second." The mayor then asked, "All those in favor, please indicate your vote by aye." The transcript records the motion and the call for the ayes but does not record a roll-call tally or the final voice vote result.

The meeting began with a roll call that recorded Mayor Lisa Boroski; Vice Mayor Jane Duboscas; Councilmembers Barry Graham, Adam Clausman, Kathy Littlefield, Mary Anne McAllen and Solange Whitehead; Interim City Manager Greg Caton; City Attorney Sherry Scott; City Treasurer Sonia Andrews; and the city clerk as present. The transcript also notes that Councilman Clausman joined the meeting during the proceedings.

The transcript provides no further public discussion of the substantive items; no additional details about the contract or parties named (beyond the phrasing in the motion) were stated on the public record in the excerpt provided. The council’s stated topics — security planning and legal counsel on employee matters and a contract negotiation — are the only agenda items recorded in the public portion of the transcript excerpt.

The council moved to convene the executive session immediately after the motion; the public transcript does not record actions taken inside the executive session, nor a subsequent public vote or further public comment in the provided excerpt. The meeting minutes or later public record would be the source for any formal votes or decisions resulting from the executive session.