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Council votes to enter closed session to discuss city administrator performance
Summary
Council moved into closed session under Iowa law at the city administrator's request to evaluate the administrator's professional competency; roll-call votes show multiple council members voting in favor.
The Le Mars City Council approved a motion to enter a closed session to evaluate the professional competency of the city administrator under Iowa Code §21.5(1)(i), at the city administrator's request.
The motion announced in the meeting cited Iowa Code section 21.5(1)(i) as the authority to evaluate the professional competency of an individual and stated the closed session was requested by the administrator. The motion language in the transcript said the closed session was necessary “to prevent needless and irreparable injury to that individual's reputation.”
A roll-call on the motion recorded affirmative responses from members identified in the transcript as Goodchild, Bruns and Sturgeon. The transcript records the three recorded votes as “Yes.” The mover and seconder for the motion were not specified in the transcript excerpt.
The council entered closed session; the meeting record in the transcript does not include discussion that occurred in closed session or any subsequent public action taken after the closed session.
