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Board enters executive session on Leaf Properties 'dollar store' case; no public report
Summary
The county commissioners entered an executive session to receive legal advice on the Leaf Properties ("dollar store") case under C.R.S. 24-6-402(4)(b); participants were listed and later the board exited with no report because the attorney had to leave.
The Montezuma County Board of County Commissioners voted to enter an executive session at its May 6, 2025 meeting to receive legal advice concerning the Leaf Properties matter, which the board referred to as the “dollar store” case.
The motion to enter executive session cited Colorado statute C.R.S. 24-6-402(4)(b) as the basis for private legal discussion. The clerk and recorder (Miss Purcell), commissioners Copenafer, Candelaria and Lindsay, attorney Tarnowski, and administrator Anderson were listed as participants for the executive session. The motion was moved and seconded and the board voted to enter executive session.
Later in the meeting the board moved to exit executive session and return to the regular session. Commissioners voted to resume the public meeting; the county attorney then left for court and the board reported that there was no public report from the executive session that day because the attorney had to depart.
The transcript records the statutory citation used to justify the closed session and the list of participants, but it does not include any substantive legal advice or settlement direction because those details occurred in closed session and no public report was provided.
