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Westminster council holds executive session to discuss transit funding and negotiator instructions
Summary
Council convened an executive session to seek direction on transit funding options and to instruct negotiators under Westminster Municipal Code and the Colorado Revised Statutes; the session began at 10:23 a.m. and the council paused regular voting during the session.
Westminster City Council paused its regular meeting at 10:23 a.m. to enter an executive session to obtain direction regarding funding options for transit services and to instruct negotiators, the city attorney said.
The attorney read the executive session title as written on the agenda: "to obtain direction from the Westminster City Council regarding funding options for transit services and to instruct negotiators as authorized by Westminster Municipal Code section 1-11-3(c)(7) and Colorado Revised Statutes 24-6-402(4)(e)(I)." A roll call was taken and multiple councilors voted to enter the closed session. The council paused voting while the executive session proceeded.
Earlier in the meeting, a councilor asked whether the executive session could be moved to the following Monday so staff could go home; other councilors said the mayor pro tem vote had to occur that night and could not be postponed, prompting the council to proceed at the scheduled time.
The council reconvened its regular meeting at 11:08 a.m., leaving the public record that the body had met in executive session for the stated purposes. No public details from the closed session were released in the transcript; the attorney’s reading of the title and the statutory citations were the explicit public record of the session’s legal basis.
Next steps: the transcript records only that the council took direction in executive session and then resumed its regular agenda; any specific instructions to staff or negotiators, or further public action, were not stated in the public portion of the record.
