Battle Ground City clerk announces executive session; timing and statute cited

City clerk Eliszet Hlily announced that the Battle Ground City Council would move into an executive session, saying it would last "40 minutes" and citing a state Revised Code of Washington reference transcribed in the recording as "RCW4.3.zeAzer." The clerk said the session would begin at 7:01 p.m. and end at 7:47 p.m.

The announcement listed several councilmembers as not present; the transcript renders their names as "Forrere," "Doroger," "Over Golzer" and "Kaypers." Spellings of those names were not verified in the record. The clerk identified herself in the recording as "Eliszet Hlily." The transcript does not state the subject or statutory exemption that would justify the executive session.

The timing supplied in the announcement is inconsistent: the clerk said the session would last "40 minutes," but the stated start and end times (7:01 p.m. to 7:47 p.m.) span 46 minutes. The transcript excerpt also contains a garbled statutory citation; the Revised Code of Washington provision commonly cited for executive sessions is RCW 42.30, but the meeting record transcribes the citation as "RCW4.3.zeAzer." The agenda entry included with the recording lists an executive-session item but does not specify the exemption or subject matter.

No formal motions or votes related to the executive session were recorded in the provided transcript excerpt. The announcement was short and involved a single speaker; no public comment or additional discussion about the sessions topic appears in the available text.

Records: The text quoted in this article is drawn from the meeting transcript (see provenance). Details not specified in the transcript (the executive sessions subject and an authoritative statute citation) are reported here as not specified in the record.