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Queenstown Commissioners hold closed session for legal advice on wastewater plant construction
Summary
The Queenstown Commissioners met Feb. 19, 2019, and unanimously voted to go into a closed session to seek legal advice related to construction matters at the town wastewater treatment plant. The closed session ran from 1:30 to 2:54 p.m.; the record lists attendees and directs the clerk to append the record to the next public minutes.
The Queenstown Commissioners convened a special meeting at 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 19, 2019, and voted unanimously to enter a closed session to obtain legal advice on construction matters at the town wastewater treatment plant, according to the minutes and an accompanying closed-session form.
President Thomas B. Willis, Jr. made the motion to go into the closed session, Commissioner Hogie Schuster seconded it, and the motion was recorded as unanimously carried. The closed session began at 1:30 p.m. and, per the record, concluded at 2:54 p.m.
The minutes and the closed-session form explicitly cite the legal authority for closing the meeting: the Open Meetings Act, Maryland Code Annotated, General Provisions Article, § 3-305(b), and enumerate the categories under that statute that permit a public body to meet privately. The stated purpose in the minutes is "to obtain legal advice from the Town Attorney related to construction matters at the wastewater plant."
The closed-session attendance list in the record names President Willis; Commissioner Alton Hardee Jr.; Commissioner Hogie Schuster; Brynja Booth, Town Attorney; Lyndsey Ryan, Assistant Town Attorney; and Amy Moore, Town Clerk. The form also lists Jason Lytle as present for part of the closed session (noted as present 1:48–2:47 p.m.). The minutes do not record public discussion of the legal advice received or any formal public action arising from the closed session.
When the Commissioners reconvened at 2:54 p.m., President Willis moved to close the special meeting; Commissioner Schuster seconded and the motion was recorded as unanimously carried. The minutes instruct the Town Clerk to maintain the closed-session document as a public record and to append it to the minutes of the next public meeting.
The record does not include the substance of the legal advice given during the closed session. No additional votes or policy decisions appear in the public minutes for that special meeting.
