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Kuna City Council adjourns to executive session citing Idaho Code 74-206(1)(a) to consult with attorney and HR director
Summary
At a Kuna City Council meeting, members voted unanimously in a roll-call to move into an executive session under Idaho Code 74-206(1)(a) to meet with attorney Jake Jones and HR director Nancy Stauffer; the motion was moved and seconded and carried on a verbal roll call.
An unidentified council member moved that the Kuna City Council adjourn to an executive session "under Idaho code 74 dash 2 0 6 1 a, with Jake Jones and Nancy, who is our HR director," and the motion was seconded and approved on a roll call.
The motion, presented during the council’s opening business, cited Idaho Code 74-206(1)(a), the statute referenced on the record as the legal basis for a closed-door session. The mover—identified in the transcript only as an unidentified speaker—said, "Move we, adjourn to executive session, under Idaho code 74 dash 2 0 6 1 a, with Jake Jones and Nancy, who is our HR director." An unidentified speaker responded, "I'll second."
Council members recorded on the roll call as voting in favor were Council member McPherson ("Yes"), Council member Biggs ("Yes") and the council president, asked in the roll call as "Council president Friess," who answered "Yes." After the vote the presiding official said the council would go "to the back room" for the executive session and closed the public portion of the meeting.
The transcript identifies the two outside attendees to be invited into the executive session: Jake Jones (referred to in the meeting as an attorney) and Nancy Stauffer, identified on the record as the HR director. The transcript also contains an inconsistency in naming the council president earlier in roll call (asked as "Council president Bruce?") and later in the polling for the executive-session motion (asked as "Council president Friess?"); the roll-call polling and affirmative vote are recorded in the transcript using the name Friess.
Idaho Code 74-206(1)(a) is cited in the meeting as the statutory authority for the closed session; the transcript does not record the substantive subject matter discussed in the executive session. The meeting record on the public transcript ends when the council departs to the closed session.
Next steps: the transcript does not include any further public actions or a return to open session, nor does it record any outcomes or directives from the closed session; those items are not specified in the public record.
