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Santa Barbara City Council adjourns to closed session on litigation and employee negotiations
Summary
At a special meeting Oct. 7, the Santa Barbara City Council read three closed-session items covering existing and anticipated litigation under Government Code section 54956.9 and public employee compensation negotiations under Government Code section 54957.6, then adjourned with no public comment and no report expected.
On Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, the Santa Barbara City Council held a special meeting and adjourned into closed session to discuss existing litigation, anticipated litigation and public employee compensation negotiations, Mayor Raus said.
The council read three closed-session items at the start of the meeting: Item 1, conference with the city attorney regarding existing litigation under Government Code section 54956.9(d)(1); Item 2, conference with the city attorney regarding anticipated litigation under Government Code section 54956.9(d)(2) and (e)(3); and Item 3, public employee compensation negotiations under Government Code section 54957.6. The council did not take public comment before moving into closed session.
The matters are exempt from the Brown Act’s open-meeting requirements while they are discussed in closed session. "With that, we do not anticipate report out, so we're going to, adjourn to close session and reconvene at 02:00 for the regular meeting," the mayor said during the meeting.
Councilmembers present for the roll call were Councilmember Harmon, Councilmember Sneddon, Mayor Pro Tem Friedman and Councilmember Jordan; Councilmember Santa Maria and Councilmember Gutierrez were noted as not present. The clerk announced there were no speaker slips or callers for public comment prior to the closed session.
The council gave no further public details at the special meeting about the subject matter of the litigation or the negotiations and indicated it did not expect to report out from closed session at the time it recessed. The council planned to reconvene for its regularly scheduled meeting at 2:00 p.m.
