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Council votes 7-4 to enter executive session on potential litigation related to budget constraints
Summary
After debate about transparency and whether to table, the council voted 7-4 to enter executive session under M.G.L. c.30A 21(a)(3) to discuss strategy for possible future litigation tied to budgetary constraints.
The council considered Paper 200-26, an order to enter executive session with counsel under the exemption in M.G.L. c.30A 21(a)(3) for discussion of strategy on possible future litigation related to budgetary constraints. Several councilors urged transparency and asked whether the matter required executive session or could be discussed in public; others said the language was modeled on prior docketed litigation items and legal reviewed the wording.
After a tabling motion failed, the council voted 7-4 to enter executive session. The roll call for the motion to enter executive session recorded yes votes from Councilors Condon, Crowe, Luong, McDonald, Simonelli, Taylor and Council President Linehan; no votes were recorded from Councilors Colon Hayes, O'Malley, Seka and Winslow. The council did not reconvene for further public business after entering executive session.
