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Cochran council approves agenda, enters executive session on personnel
Summary
At a May 26 special called meeting, the Cochran City Council unanimously approved the agenda, entered an executive session at 6:04 p.m. to discuss personnel, reconvened at 7:20 p.m. and immediately adjourned.
The Cochran City Council met in a special called session on May 26, 2026, in the Municipal Building Conference Room at 102 N Second Street. Mayor Carla Coley called the meeting to order at 6:01 p.m.; Councilman Gary Ates led the invocation and the clerk established a quorum.
Councilman Gary Ates moved to approve the meeting agenda for May 26, 2026; Councilman Lonnie Tedders seconded the motion, which the council approved unanimously. The published agenda listed a single substantive item: an executive session for personnel.
On a motion by Councilman Gary Ates, seconded by Councilman Lonnie Tedders, the council voted unanimously to enter executive session at 6:04 p.m. to discuss personnel matters. The record notes Jim Elliott, the city attorney, participated via Zoom and Angela Redding served as interim city manager during the meeting.
The council reconvened the special called meeting at 7:20 p.m. on a motion by Ates, seconded by Tedders, and subsequently voted, again unanimously, to adjourn the meeting at 7:20 p.m.
Attendees listed in the minutes were Mayor Carla Coley; Mayor Pro Tempore Shane Savant; Councilmembers Trecia Gardner, Gary Ates, Rufus Veal, Lonnie Tedders and Dianne Lester; Interim City Manager Angela Redding; and City Attorney Jim Elliott (via Zoom). The minutes record only procedural motions and the executive session; no public deliberations or personnel details were disclosed in the minutes.
