Long Branch City Council adopts resolution to enter executive session

The Long Branch City Council adopted Resolution R-204-25 and moved into an executive session to discuss attorney–client privileged matters and an administrators update, the council’s presiding officer said.

The action came after the presiding officer called the meeting to order, then asked for and received a motion to close the public portion of the meeting. The presiding officer then asked for a motion to adopt a resolution, saying, “Resolution number RDash204Dash25. Be it resolved that the city council will go into executive session to discuss the following.” A council member said, “So moved,” another said, “Second,” and the presiding officer took a voice vote: “All in favor? Aye.”

A staff member conducting roll call certified that the meeting had been published in the newspaper in accordance with the Open Public Meeting Act and posted as required by law, then read attendance: “Mister Assos? Here. Mister Viera? Here. Missus Wittis is absent. Mister Dangler is absent. Doctor Boat? Here.”

The record in the transcript does not identify which council members made the motions or the names of those who seconded them, and it records only a voice vote; no roll-call tallies or individual recorded votes appear in the provided transcript. The resolution’s stated topics for the executive session were attorney–client privilege and an administrators update. The council proceeded into executive session after the voice vote.

The meeting had minimal on-the-record discussion before the council moved to close the public portion and adopt the resolution. No further details about the administrators update or any actions to be taken afterward were recorded in the supplied transcript excerpt.