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Minot City Council holds closed executive session to discuss potential land purchase
Summary
At a Dec. 15 special meeting, the Minot City Council voted to enter an executive session to discuss negotiating strategy and provide instructions to attorneys regarding a potential land purchase. The session began at 4:48 p.m., adjourned at 5:04 p.m., and no formal action was taken in open session.
The Minot City Council met in a special session on Monday, Dec. 15, and voted to go into a closed executive session to discuss a potential land purchase and to give negotiating instructions to the city’s attorneys and negotiators.
Unidentified presiding officer, who opened the meeting at 4:45 p.m., announced that the council would discuss “negotiating strategy and provide negotiating instructions to its attorneys and other negotiators regarding a potential contract,” citing the North Dakota Century Code as authority for closing the meeting. The presiding officer said an open meeting on the topic would have “an adverse fiscal effect on the bargaining position of the city.”
A motion "to discuss agenda item number 3 in executive session" was made, identified by the presiding officer as moved by Alderman Blessum and seconded by Alderman Samuelson. The council then conducted a roll-call vote; members Breslin, Pollard, Jastard, Olson, Finner and Sammis answered "Yes," and the presiding officer declared the motion carried. The presiding officer reminded members to limit discussion in the executive session to the announced topic and said the session would be recorded.
Council members relocated to the City Council Conference Room for the closed session; the presiding officer said members of the public in chambers were welcome to remain and that the council anticipated reconvening around 5:15 p.m. The minutes were recorded as showing the executive session began at 4:48 p.m.; the presiding officer later announced it adjourned at 5:04 p.m. According to the presiding officer, “There is no action to be taken following the executive session,” and the meeting proceeded to the next open agenda item.
A motion to adjourn the special meeting was moved and seconded (the transcript does not specify who made and seconded the motion). The presiding officer called for the vote, members voiced "Aye," and the presiding officer declared the motion carried; the meeting was adjourned.
The council’s statements in the meeting indicate the discussion in the closed session was limited to negotiating strategy and instructions for counsel. The transcript does not record any formal vote or final action taken on the potential land purchase in open session; next steps or any follow-up public action were not specified in the record provided.
