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Council votes to enter executive session to discuss city manager hiring
Summary
On April 7, 2026, the city council voted 6-0 to adjourn into an executive session to discuss hiring a city manager, citing 10-15-1 H2 in MSA 1978 as amended. The evening’s agenda had been approved earlier by the same vote count.
The city council voted 6-0 on April 7, 2026, to adjourn into an executive session to discuss limited personnel matters related to hiring a city manager, citing "10-15-1 H2 in MSA 1978 as amended." The motion was moved and seconded and approved after a brief interruption in the meeting call.
The meeting opened at 5:30 p.m. when the presiding officer called the session to order. The clerk conducted roll call and recorded Mayor Sharon McDonald, Mayor pro tem Josh Reardon, Commissioner Baxter Patillo, Commissioner Stephen Burnett, Commissioner Warren Robinson and Commissioner Al Hernandez as present; Commissioner Mark Tapley was absent. "Madam Mayor, we have quorum," the clerk said, and the council proceeded.
Before the executive-session motion, the council approved the agenda on a motion from Commissioner Warren Robinson, seconded by Commissioner Al Hernandez; the clerk recorded the vote as 6-0. Later, a motion to adjourn to executive session "in compliance with 10-15-1 H2 in MSA 1978 as amended to discuss limited personnel matters, hiring of the city manager" was moved (recorded in the transcript as by "Commissioner Patel") and seconded by Commissioner Warren Robinson. The roll-call vote was 6-0 to authorize the executive session. Commissioner Stephen Burnett’s affirmative vote was recorded explicitly in the transcript; the other five present members were recorded as voting in favor by the clerk’s announcement that the vote passed 6-0.
The council then closed the public meeting and moved into the executive session. No public discussion of candidates or personnel deliberations occurred on the public record. The council did not announce additional dates or next public steps before adjourning into closed session.
Clarifying details: the transcript lists the motion mover’s name inconsistently (earlier roll call records Commissioner Baxter Patillo; the motion is recorded as moved by "Commissioner Patel" in the transcript). The article uses the roll-call spelling Baxter Patillo as the authoritative form and notes the transcript variation.
