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Lake County Board moves into closed session to interview candidates, discuss litigation and labor talks
Summary
After continuing the commercial cannabis hearing, the Lake County Board of Supervisors went into closed session at a time-specific 1:05 p.m. to interview candidates for health services director, consider personnel matters, discuss existing litigation (including 276 Ranch LLC v. County of Lake) and labor negotiations.
After voting to continue the public hearing on the commercial cannabis ordinance, the Lake County Board of Supervisors recessed into closed session with a time-specific start of 1:05 p.m.
The Board Chair read the closed-session agenda aloud. Items listed included interviews and appointment discussions for the health services director under Government Code section 54957(b)(1); a public health employee evaluation for the social services director (which the Chair said would be continued to June 2); matters of public employee discipline, dismissal or release; a conference with legal counsel regarding existing litigation (the Chair cited "276 Ranch LLC versus County of Lake and others" under Government Code section 54956.9(d)(1)); significant exposure to litigation under Government Code section 54956.9(d)(2) and (e)(1) (five potential cases); and conference with the labor negotiator naming chief negotiator Susan Parker and county negotiators Jay Salone, Steven Carter, Casey Moreno, Pam Samick and Diana Rico, and the employee organization representative, deputy county counsel.
The Chair said the board would return to open session at an unspecified time. By law, the board may report certain actions taken in closed session once it reconvenes in public; no report was made in the transcript provided.
Because the closed session items are statutorily confidential, this account is limited to the agenda items announced publicly by the Chair.
