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San Antonio council holds executive session on cybersecurity, real property and economic development; no action taken
Summary
The San Antonio City Council met in executive session Jan. 29 to consult with the city attorney on cybersecurity briefings from San Antonio Water System and CPS Energy, security deployments and critical infrastructure, economic development negotiations and real-property matters; the council reconvened with no official action reported.
The San Antonio City Council met in executive session Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, to consult with the city attorney on cybersecurity briefings by the San Antonio Water System (SAWS) and CPS Energy, to discuss deployment of security personnel and critical infrastructure protections, and to deliberate economic-development negotiations and potential real‑property transactions. The council reconvened at 4:36 p.m. and said “No official action was taken in executive session.”
The session was held under the permissive exceptions in Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code, which allows a governmental body to meet privately for consultations with legal counsel (section 551.071), deliberation about real property (section 551.072), certain discussions about security devices or security plans (section 551.076), and economic development negotiations (section 551.087). The council’s publicly stated agenda items named SAWS and CPS as sources of a cybersecurity briefing and listed litigation, emergency preparedness and collective bargaining among other consultative topics.
The roll call at the start of the meeting recorded a quorum. Council members named during roll call included Corr; Mickey Rodriguez; Villagran; Roache Garcia; Castillo; Cabello Haberda; Aldereta Gabito; Belais; Courage; White; and Polaes. Mayor Nirenberg was present. A staff member announced the reconvening and said that no official action was taken. During roll call a clerk or staff member noted that Council member Polaes was sitting in the wrong seat.
The council’s announcement provided scant public detail about what, if any, specific decisions or directives came from the private session. Under state law, proceedings in a permitted executive session are not made public except by disclosure approved in open session; the council disclosed only that it had met and that no official action resulted. The meeting’s B session was then adjourned.
The agenda items identified in the executive-session announcement carry potentially immediate local relevance: cybersecurity briefings by SAWS and CPS Energy relate to utilities that serve San Antonio residents and critical infrastructure protections; economic-development negotiations and real-property deliberations can precede public votes or contracts. The council did not disclose further specifics or any follow-up timeline during the public reconvening.
