Rutland RPC Executive Finance Committee votes to enter executive session to discuss probable litigation

Devin read a motion asking the Executive Finance Committee to move into executive session under 1 V.S.A. § 313(a)(1) "to discuss pending or probable civil litigation or prosecution to which the public body is or may be a party and where premature general public knowledge would clearly place the public body or a person involved at a substantial disadvantage." A motion and a second were recorded; committee members voted aloud in favor and the public recording was stopped at about 6:38 p.m.

The transcript does not attribute a clear mover and seconder by name in the public record for this motion. The committee’s oral votes were recorded as in favor (several members said "Aye"). After the vote the chair asked staff to stop recording and indicated the time. No substantive discussion of litigation details occurred on the public record.

Because the discussion and any deliberations in executive session are confidential under the cited statute, the committee did not disclose the subject matter in open session and no additional public information was provided at the meeting about the litigation.