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Sedona council votes to enter executive session on city manager evaluation and Abionte Creekside agreement
Summary
The Sedona City Council approved a voice vote to move into executive session to discuss City Manager Annette Spickered’s annual evaluation and to receive legal advice and direction on the proposed Abionte Creekside development agreement, citing Arizona statutes for executive sessions.
The Sedona City Council voted by voice to enter an executive session to discuss two items: the annual evaluation of City Manager Annette Spickered and legal strategy related to the proposed Abionte Creekside development agreement. The presiding officer announced Item 3 and cited Arizona statutes as the legal basis for the closed session.
The council’s announcement listed two purposes for the executive session. First, the council said it would conduct "discussion and consultation regarding personal matters specifically to discuss the process of city manager Annette Spickered annual evaluation," and cited ARS 38 dash 4 3 1.0311. Second, the council indicated it would "discuss and consult with the city attorney for legal advice and to consider the city's position and instruct its attorneys regarding contracts that are the subject of negotiations and settlements" related to the proposed Abionte Creekside development agreement, citing ARS 38 dash 4 3 1.0313 and 4.
After the presiding officer asked for a motion, a council member moved to go into executive session and another member (identified in the record as Kathy) seconded. The council conducted a voice vote; the presiding officer called for 'aye' and recorded no opposition, approving the motion to convene the executive session. No roll-call vote totals or detailed vote tallies were recorded in the open transcript.
The meeting included brief informal remarks and concluded in open session with the presiding officer stating the council would return to open session and adjourn until the next meeting at 4:30. Because the matters were taken into executive session, no substantive discussion of the city manager’s evaluation or details of the Abionte Creekside agreement appear in the public record captured here.
Next steps: the council entered a closed executive session as authorized under the cited Arizona statutes; any decisions resulting from that closed session were not reported in the provided transcript.
