San Bruno City Council holds closed session on litigation and labor talks, then adjourns with no reportable action

The San Bruno City Council convened in a special session Oct. 8 and recessed into closed session to consider two matters: existing litigation and labor negotiations involving local employee organizations. The council returned from closed session, announced there was no reportable action, and adjourned the special meeting to the next regular City Council meeting that evening at 7:00 p.m.

The meeting opened with a presiding official welcoming attendees and calling the session to order. The city clerk then conducted roll call; Council Members Alvarez, Hamilton and Marty Medina, Vice Mayor Salazar and Mayor Rico Medina were recorded as present.

The presiding official announced Item 3, which included (A) a conference with legal counsel regarding existing litigation and (B) a conference with labor negotiators, with the city manager serving as the agency-designated representative. The labor organizations named during the announcement included representatives identified in the transcript as "Teamsters 8 56, IBT miscellaneous, Teamsters local 3 50 IBT mid management, and San Bruno Management Employee Association." The council stated it would meet in closed session and would return to report any reportable action if one occurred.

After the closed session, the council returned to open session and the presiding official stated there was "no reportable action." No motions or votes were recorded on the public record in the transcript of the special meeting. The council then adjourned the special meeting to the next regular City Council meeting at 7:00 p.m.

The public agenda language used at the meeting cited closed-session authority under state open-meeting law to discuss litigation and labor negotiations; when cited in public materials, those provisions are commonly referenced as Government Code sections governing closed sessions for litigation and labor negotiations. The meeting transcript’s numeric citation ("section 549,569") was inconsistent with those standard citations; the council did not place any formal motion or vote on the public record during this special session.