Gibraltar council moves into closed session to discuss legal opinion on data-center moratorium

The Gibraltar City Council moved into a closed session to consider a written legal opinion about a data-center moratorium the council enacted on 2026-03-09.

City Administrator Witherspoon told the council that since the moratorium was enacted the city "has been working with professional consultants and legal counsel" and that the city had "received correspondence from legal counsel representing a party with interests related to this matter," prompting a request to discuss a written legal opinion in closed session. The motion to go into closed session was made by Councilmember LaPointe and seconded by Councilmember Bosmer; the chair called the roll and declared the motion carried.

The moratorium on data centers remains the context for the closed discussion. After the closed session, the council returned to open session by voice vote and reopened the meeting to public comment. A member of the public said they were "here for education," and asked whether there was printed information available; Witherspoon responded, "Not that we can disclose from tonight." The meeting then moved to adjournment and ended.

The council did not disclose the written legal opinion or specific details from the closed session at the public meeting. Officials said the closed-session discussion would take place upstairs and that public microphones in chambers would be turned off while the body was in private session. There was no vote on ordinances, resolutions, or other substantive policy changes recorded on the public record during the session.