Indio City Council adjourns to closed session to consider city attorney performance evaluation

The Indio City Council recessed into a closed session at 4:03 p.m. Wednesday to consider a public employee performance evaluation for the city attorney, citing Government Code §54957.

A presiding official—who is not identified by name in the transcript and is referred to here as "the chair"—called the meeting to order and announced the session was a closed session of the Indio City Council. The chair opened a public-comment period for items on the agenda and noted there were no members of the public present to speak: "But shucks, nobody's here," the chair said.

The council then moved to adjourn to closed session to consider the city attorney's performance evaluation. In announcing the item, the chair cited the statutory authority for the closed session: "public employee performance evaluation, pursuant to Government Code 54957, title city attorney." No motion text, mover/second, or public vote was recorded in the available transcript of the open portion.

Because the meeting moved into a closed session, no further discussion or any outcomes related to the evaluation were recorded in the public transcript. The council did not announce any decisions or votes on the record in the portion of the meeting provided.

The transcript shows the body convened the closed session on the personnel matter; any actions or conclusions from that closed session are not public unless the council chooses to disclose them at a subsequent open meeting or through an official statement.