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Sedona City Council moves into executive session to discuss city attorney recruitment
Summary
The Sedona City Council voted to meet in executive session on June 23, 2026 to discuss recruitment for the city attorney position and to receive legal advice; one councilor urged keeping portions of the search public.
The Sedona City Council voted Tuesday to go into executive session to discuss recruitment for the city attorney position and to receive legal advice, the council chair said at the start of the meeting.
The item was announced at the June 23 meeting, which began at 2:00 p.m., and the chair said the executive session would address "the recruitment for employment and or appointment of a person to fill the city attorney position and for legal advice with the city attorney," citing state statutes as the basis for a closed session.
A council member acknowledged the council was permitted to meet behind closed doors on the topic but urged more public discussion. "There are certainly bits of this that we could be having an open conversation in our community about what we think the needs are for the next city attorney," the councilor said. "But I encourage my council members to not do all of it in executive session." The chair replied that some discussion in executive session would be acceptable and the councilor affirmed that approach.
After the motion to move into executive session was made and seconded, the chair called for the vote; members responded "Aye," and the chair declared the council in executive session. The transcript records that the city attorney arrived as the council left the open meeting. When the council returned to open session, the chair announced it was 3:08 p.m. and said the meeting was adjourned until 4:00 p.m., then corrected the reconvening time to 3:45 p.m.
The council did not make public further details of the recruitment discussion in the recorded excerpt. The executive session was announced on statutory grounds during the meeting; the transcript records the councilor's request that some parts of the recruitment process be discussed publicly.
The next procedural step noted on the record was the recess; no hiring decision, appointment, or further public schedule for the recruitment was provided in the excerpt.
