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Petersburg council enters closed session to discuss personnel, legal and real property matters
Summary
At its Jan. 6, 2026 meeting the Petersburg City Council voted to enter a closed session to consider personnel matters, receive legal advice and discuss the potential acquisition or disposition of real property. The motion cited multiple Code of Virginia provisions and 24 C.F.R. 570.2; a roll call vote was recorded and the council then certified the session.
The Petersburg City Council voted on Jan. 6, 2026, to enter a closed session to consider personnel matters, obtain legal advice and discuss the possible acquisition or disposition of real property, the council announced during the meeting.
The presiding official asked the body to add a personnel matter and additional legal matters to the closed session agenda, citing provisions of the Code of Virginia and 24 C.F.R. 570.2. The clerk called for a motion; a speaker said “So moved” and Councilwoman Smith Lee seconded (SEG 025–036). The council then took a separate motion to convene the closed session under the statutory grounds read into the record (SEG 041–060).
Vice Mayor Hill moved the motion to convene the closed session and Councilman Westbrook seconded, according to the sequence recorded on the transcript (SEG 068–071). A roll call vote followed; the transcript records the clerk naming members and affirmative responses, and the presiding officer announced, “The motion carries” (SEG 072–085). The meeting then entered closed session (SEG 086).
After the closed session, the presiding official asked for a motion to conclude and to certify compliance with the Code of Virginia (SEG 088–093). The council completed a roll call certification and the presiding officer again announced the motion carried; the meeting resumed (SEG 100–123). The transcript records that members were asked to note any departures from the subject matter of the closed session for the record; no departures were recorded in the portion of the transcript provided.
The motions on the record cited multiple Virginia code provisions and the federal regulation 24 C.F.R. 570.2 as the legal basis for closing the meeting and for the subject matter to be discussed; the transcript reproduces those citations as recited by the presiding official (SEG 025–060). The council did not adopt or reveal in the public portion any substantive decisions reached during the closed session in the transcript provided. The council’s next procedural step, per the record, was to resume the public meeting after certification.
