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Cochise County supervisors vote to enter executive session for legal advice on pending litigation
Summary
The Cochise County Board of Supervisors voted 2-0, with one member absent, to go into executive session to receive legal advice regarding pending litigation and to instruct counsel, citing state open-meeting statute language from the transcript.
The Cochise County Board of Supervisors voted to go into executive session to receive legal advice and to instruct counsel regarding the board’s position in pending litigation.
The motion to convene the special meeting and enter executive session was made under statutory language cited in the meeting as “ARS 38 dash 421 dash 03 a 3 n 4” and related ARS references; the board recorded the motion passing 2-0 with one member not voting. The meeting took place in the Supervisor’s Executive Conference Room on Melody Lane in Bisbee; the board announced that executive-session minutes and discussions are confidential under the cited statute language.
Supervisor Gomez (District 2) provided the motion to go into executive session for legal advice with the attorney of the public body to consider and instruct attorneys about the board’s position in pending litigation. The board recorded a second and then voted; the motion passed with two affirmative votes and one nonvoting member (District 1 Supervisor Crosby was absent). The board then recessed to executive session and later exited the session at 03:23, with a brief public remark thanking outside counsel for attending.
Present for the session, as announced on the record, were Supervisors Gomez (District 2) and Antinori (District 3); District 1 Supervisor Crosby was absent. Also present were an attorney from the Cochise County Attorney’s Office (Correa), County Administrator Gilman, outside counsel Roosing, staff member Joe Casey, and Laura Lowenheim, clerk of the board. The board chair and other personnel announced that members of the public could attend in person or via Microsoft Teams but that executive-session discussions were confidential per the statute language cited on the record.
No other substantive agenda items or public deliberations were recorded in the provided transcript excerpt. After exiting executive session, the board member speaking on the record thanked “Mick” for traveling to provide legal advice; the meeting then immediately adjourned.
