San Fernando City Council approves agenda, recesses to closed session at special meeting

The San Fernando City Council convened a special meeting and approved the agenda before recessing into a closed session.

A presiding official called the meeting to order and announced the time was 5:07 p.m. During roll call, Council member Mary Salodio was listed earlier in the record as "Present." Council member Joe Fajardo answered "Here," Vice Mayor Mary Mendoza was recorded as absent, and Mayor Celeste Rodriguez answered "Here." The presiding official said, "We have a quorum."

The council then moved to approve the agenda. A motion and second were made; the transcript records the verbal motion and second but does not identify who moved or seconded. During the roll call on the motion, the transcript records affirmative responses from a speaker listed as "Solorio" ("Yes"), Council member Joe Fajardo ("Yes"), and Mayor Celeste Rodriguez ("Yes"); Vice Mayor Mary Mendoza was absent. The presiding official announced, "Motion passes." The transcript alternates between the name "Mary Salodio" (earlier in roll call) and the name "Solorio" during the motion roll call; the record does not clarify whether these refer to the same council member.

The presiding official reminded attendees that decorum and order are printed in the agenda and asked the deputy city clerk whether there were any public statements for the special meeting. The deputy city clerk replied, "There are no public statements for the special meeting." Immediately afterward the presiding official stated, "At this time, we will recess to our special meeting closed session." The transcript contains no record of votes or actions from the closed session.

The meeting's formal public record items in this transcript are: approval of the agenda (motion passed by roll call) and the council's recess to closed session. The transcript does not identify who moved or seconded the motion to approve the agenda and does not include any public comment.