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Shelton board votes to enter executive session to discuss land purchase
Summary
The Board of Aldermen approved a motion to go into executive session to discuss a land purchase, cleared the auditorium except for administrative staff and counsel, and an attendee objected that the item had not been clearly presented on the agenda.
The Board of Aldermen voted to enter executive session to discuss a land purchase after the board president asked for a motion on the matter. The motion was made, was seconded (recorded as seconded by Alderman Durant), and approved by voice vote.
The board then instructed that the auditorium be cleared and that only the administrative assistant and the corporation counsel remain for the executive session. One participant objected, saying the move “came out of nowhere” and that the item appears as 10.2 on the agenda; another participant noted statutory/financial business had been skipped.
The record shows the board treated the request as a formal motion and approved it by unanimous voice vote; the transcript does not record a roll-call vote or specific yes/no tallies by name for this motion. The board did not take further public action on the land matter during open session; the discussion was moved into executive session as permitted by the board’s rules.
Next steps: the board exited open session to hold the executive-session discussion on the land purchase; no additional public details or decisions about the land purchase were recorded in the open meeting minutes provided in the transcript.
