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Council member moves Franklin City Council into closed session to interview city clerk candidates
Summary
At a July 2 special-call meeting, Franklin City Council approved the agenda, convened to a closed session under Virginia Code to interview prospective city clerk candidates, reconvened and certified the closed meeting before adjourning.
At a special-call meeting on July 2, the Franklin City Council approved its agenda and moved into a closed session to consider and interview prospective candidates for the appointment of city clerk.
A council member moved “that city council of Franklin, Virginia, convene to a closed meeting pursuant to Virginia Code Section 2.2 3711A1 for the purpose of discussion, consideration or interviews of prospective candidates for the appointment of city clerk,” and the motion was seconded, the transcript records. The Chair instructed the chief of police to close the doors before the council left the public meeting for the closed session.
The council later reconvened in open session; a council member moved that the City Council certify that, to the best of each member’s knowledge, only public business lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act was discussed in the closed meeting and that only matters identified in the motion to convene the closed meeting were considered. Members responded “Certified” on the record; the transcript records a certification for four members.
No substantive discussion from the closed session appears in the public transcript. The meeting concluded with a motion to adjourn that was seconded and approved. The clerk appointment process and any candidate names were not recorded in the public portions of this transcript.
