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Costa Mesa City Council recesses into closed session to discuss multiple litigation matters
Summary
The Costa Mesa City Council held a special closed session Sept. 2 to confer with legal counsel about potential and existing litigation, citing California Government Code Section 54956.9; five cases were named on the agenda.
The Costa Mesa City Council convened a special closed-session meeting Tuesday, Sept. 2 to confer with legal counsel about potential and existing litigation, citing California Government Code Section 54956.9.
The closed-session agenda listed five matters: RDK Group Holdings v. City of Costa Mesa (Orange County Superior Court); Feral Harrison v. City of Costa Mesa (Orange County Superior Court); Insight Psychology and Addiction v. City of Costa Mesa (U.S. District Court, Central District of California); Perdoma v. Noem et al. (U.S. District Court, Central District of California); and DBO Investments v. City of Costa Mesa (Orange County Superior Court). The clerk read the agenda items aloud before the council recessed.
The council completed a roll call at the start of the meeting. Council Member Mar said she was attending remotely from Utah and confirmed, "I believe the address has been provided, and there are no adults in the room with me." Council Member Reynolds was recorded as absent.
Public comment was closed at the start of the meeting; the clerk then read the closed-session items. After the items were read, the mayor directed the meeting to recess to the community room for the closed session. The transcript records the transition but does not include any discussion or outcomes from the closed session.
Closed sessions held under California Government Code Section 54956.9 allow a legislative body to meet with legal counsel about pending or reasonably anticipated litigation; the agenda in this meeting identified both "potential litigation" and "existing litigation" references under the statute. The council moved into closed session to address those items; any deliberations that took place in closed session are not included in the public transcript of the meeting.
Unless the council later reports actions taken in open session or otherwise discloses outcomes permitted by law, the public record for this meeting consists of the roll call, the clerk’s reading of the closed-session items and the council’s recess into closed session.
