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Takoma Park council votes to meet in closed session on upcoming union negotiations
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The Takoma Park City Council voted to convene a closed session to receive legal advice and a briefing on upcoming collective bargaining negotiations with AFSCME Local 33 99 and UFCW Local 400, citing Maryland statutes that allow consultation with counsel and bargaining discussions.
The Takoma Park City Council voted to convene a closed session Monday evening to receive a briefing and legal advice on upcoming collective bargaining negotiations with AFSCME Local 33 99 and UFCW Local 400.
“The city council will vote to convene in closed session to meet with staff and the city's labor attorney to receive a briefing and legal advice on upcoming collective bargaining negotiations with AFSCME local 33 99 and UFCW local 400,” the presiding official said during the meeting.
The council cited the Annotated Code of Maryland, General Provisions Article §3-305(b)(9), which permits a meeting to be closed to discuss matters related to collective bargaining negotiations, and §3-305(b)(7), which permits closing to consult with counsel to receive legal advice. The presiding official set the closed session for 6:30 p.m. and said the council would reconvene the regular meeting in the auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
A council member moved to go into closed session; the presiding official thanked “council member Hansack” for the motion and acknowledged a second (recorded as “council member de Bala” in the transcript). The motion was adopted by voice vote after the presiding official asked those in favor to say “aye”; the transcript records only affirmative responses and does not record any opposed or abstaining votes or individual roll-call votes.
No substantive discussion or decisions beyond the vote to go into closed session are recorded in the provided transcript excerpt. The council’s next publicly recorded action in the excerpt was the announcement that the regular meeting would resume at 7:30 p.m.
The transcript records slightly different spellings for some council member names in separate lines (for example, the roll call lists “Hansak” while the motion acknowledgement uses “Hansack,” and the roll call lists “D'Valla” while the motion acknowledgement references “de Bala”). The article reports names exactly as they appear in the transcript and notes the variations where they occur.
