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Chair moves Town of Sunset Beach meeting into closed session citing attorney-client privilege; no action taken
Summary
At a meeting of the Town of Sunset Beach, the presiding Chair moved the body into a closed session citing statutes allowing consultation with counsel and consideration of personnel matters; the meeting returned with no action taken and then adjourned.
The presiding Chair moved the Town of Sunset Beach meeting into a closed session after invoking statutes permitting consultation with the public body's attorney and consideration of personnel matters, and later reported no action was taken before adjourning.
The Chair opened the motion, saying, "I'd like to move into a closed session," and then cited statutory bases for the session, referencing "143 3 18 11 a 3" to consult with the attorney for the public body to preserve attorney-client privilege and "143 3 18 11 a 6" to consider qualifications, character or to investigate a complaint concerning a public officer or employee. The motion was moved and seconded and approved by a voice vote; individual vote names and tallies were not specified in the transcript.
After the closed session, the Chair announced the meeting was coming out of closed session and stated that "we had no action was taken in closed session," indicating that the body did not adopt any formal decisions during the closed portion. The Chair then asked for and received a motion and second to adjourn; the motion was approved by voice vote and the meeting was closed.
The transcript records the procedural motions, the statutory citations used to justify the closed session and the Chair's statement that no action was taken. The recorded text does not identify who made or seconded the motions by name, nor does it provide a roll-call vote tally or other details about topics discussed in the closed session.
