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Commission adds and enters short executive session to discuss 2017 Town Creek case
Summary
At the November meeting the Lawrence County Commission voted to add an executive session to the agenda and enter it to discuss a case that began in 2017 involving Town Creek; the session was estimated to last about 10 minutes, and no substantive public discussion of the litigation was recorded.
Mr. Thompson requested that the commission go into executive session to discuss the county's case that began in 2017 against Town Creek and to receive an update on pending issues. Commissioners voted to add the executive session to the agenda and then voted to enter the session, indicating it would take about 10 minutes.
The request and motions to add and enter the executive session were approved by voice vote; no public record of substantive discussion about the underlying lawsuit appears in the public portion of the transcript. Commissioners said they would return shortly following the closed session.
Because executive sessions typically protect privileged deliberations about litigation and personnel, no further details about the claims, defenses or counsel's recommendations were disclosed in the public record. The only timing detail recorded in public was Mr. Thompson's estimate that the session would last "no more than 10 minutes." The commission then recessed into the executive session.
The meeting record resumes after the closed session, but the public transcript supplied here does not include the closed-session content.
