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Bel Aire council holds executive session on pending litigation; no binding action taken
Summary
At a Sept. 9, 2025 special meeting, the Bel Aire City Council recessed into an executive session to receive legal advice on pending litigation under KSA 75-4319(b)(2); the council recorded votes to recess and to extend the session and announced no binding action was taken.
The Bel Aire City Council recessed into a closed executive session on Sept. 9, 2025, to receive legal advice related to pending litigation, the council announced.
The city attorney read a written special-meeting request dated Sept. 2, 2025, asking the mayor to call a special meeting for Sept. 9 at 7 p.m. at Bel Aire City Hall "for the purpose of an executive session to discuss with legal counsel and receive legal advice related to pending litigation," citing KSA 75-4319(b)(2). The reading named outside legal counsel Neil Ghosh and said the city manager, city attorney, city engineer and Catherine Schlumski were invited to the session.
A council member moved to recess into executive session for 30 minutes for legal consultation under the cited statute; the motion was seconded and the council voted to recess into executive session, recorded as carrying 5 to 0. The presiding official later returned the meeting to open session and stated, "We held an executive session. No binding action was taken." (Presiding official: Mayor.)
After reconvening, a council member moved to extend the executive session by 10 minutes, with the meeting to resume at 7:46 p.m. That motion was seconded and the council recorded the result as 4 to 1, with one council member indicating opposition on the record. The council again returned to open session, reiterated that no binding action had been taken during executive session, and then approved a motion to adjourn by a 5-to-0 vote.
The meeting record shows council members Greg David, Tyler Dean, Emily Hamburg, Tom Schmidt and John Welch present for the special meeting. The council did not announce any formal decisions or binding actions arising from the executive session; any next procedural steps were not specified during the public portion of the meeting.
The special-meeting request and the citations read into the record indicate the session was held pursuant to state statute and city code; the record provided to the council named the invited participants but did not present specifics of the litigation in open session.
The meeting was adjourned after the council confirmed there was no further business.
