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Queenstown Board of Commissioners votes 2-0 to enter closed session for land-use legal advice
Summary
At a Sept. 17 special meeting, the Queenstown Board of Commissioners voted 2-0 to convene a closed session to obtain legal advice from the town attorney on land-use matters; the public record includes the vote and a form citing the Maryland Open Meetings Act but does not disclose the closed deliberations or their outcome.
The Queenstown Board of Commissioners voted to enter a closed session on Sept. 17, 2024, to obtain legal advice from the town attorney on land-use matters. The special meeting was called to order at 3:06 p.m., and the minutes record a vote of "2 aye - 0" to convene the closed session; the transcript does not specify who moved or seconded the motion.
Under a standard closed-session form included in the meeting packet, the board cited the Maryland Open Meetings Act as authority to meet in private to consult with counsel and to consider matters such as acquisition of real property or pending litigation. The publicly filed minutes direct the town clerk to maintain the closed-session record and append it to the minutes of the next public meeting, but the transcript contains no summary of the closed deliberations or any formal action taken inside the closed session.
President Al Hardee and Commissioner Bryon Callahan are listed in the attendance block along with Town Manager Amy Moore, Town Clerk Aaron Horney and Town Attorney Lyndsey Ryan. Aaron Horney’s name appears on the submitted record; the clerk’s signature block and the form text indicate the clerk is responsible for retaining the closed-session documentation.
Key procedural details are not specified in the public transcript: the name of the motion’s mover and seconder is not recorded, the exact end time of the closed session is not legible in the text, and the form’s summary-of-actions field is blank or garbled. The meeting packet’s statutory citation is also garbled in parts of the transcript; it references the Maryland Open Meetings Act but does not include a clear section number in the public text.
No quoted remarks from commissioners or the town attorney appear in the public transcript. The board’s action was limited to approving entry into the closed session; any legal advice received or follow-up directions remain part of the closed record and were not summarized in the materials released with the meeting minutes.
