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Ojai council delays closed-session waiver decision, agrees to reschedule with notice
Summary
City council members debated whether to waive closed-session privilege to discuss possible participation in pending litigation and agreed to reschedule a closed session so an absent council member can attend and staff can provide scheduling options.
Ojai City Council members debated on whether to waive closed-session privilege so the council could consider participating in a pending court matter and decided to reschedule the closed session to allow an absent member to attend and provide more public notice.
Council members spent the meeting reviewing procedures for waiving closed-session privilege and asking the city attorney for legal advice about the process. City Attorney Mister Summers advised that “If the consideration is to waive privilege on a closed session, I recommend discussing that in closed session first.” The council did not take a formal vote to waive privilege at the special meeting.
The issue under discussion involved whether the city should participate in or otherwise register a position in a pending case referred to in the meeting as the Venskus case and related court deadlines.…
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