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Carlsbad council names labor negotiators, moves into closed session over city manager talks
Summary
The city attorney announced a closed-session conference with labor negotiators to discuss the city manager’s employment; the negotiators named were the mayor and Mayor Pro Tem Bah Patel, consistent with Government Code section 54957.6. No public outcome was recorded.
The Carlsbad City Council recessed into a closed session to confer with labor negotiators about the city manager’s employment, the city attorney said. “Your labor negotiators are mayor Blackburn and mayor Pro Tem Bah Patel, and the unrepresented employee who's the subject of the negotiations is the city manager,” the city attorney stated.
The city attorney cited Government Code section 54957.6 as the statutory basis for the closed-session labor conference. The transcript records identification of the negotiators and the subject (the city manager) but does not include any negotiation details, terms, or a public vote. The mayor and mayor pro tem were identified on the record as the council’s negotiating representatives.
The council’s invocation of the labor-negotiation exception was procedural; the transcript contains no public directive, motion text, or outcome from the closed-session discussion. The meeting record proceeds from the announcement of the closed session without additional public deliberation in the provided segments.
