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Chair opens meeting with prayer, cites state statute before moving to closed session
Summary
The chair opened the session with a prayer thanking residents for storm recovery, noted an addition to the agenda and Nov. 25 minutes in the packet, and announced the body would enter a closed session, citing North Carolina General Statutes § 143-318.11; no details of the agenda addition were given.
A meeting chair opened the session with a short acknowledgement and a prayer and then announced the body would move into a closed session under state statute.
A presenter led the opening prayer, saying, "Thank you for the privilege of living here in this town and for the good things that we have seen since the storm," and asking for comfort for "those who are grieving, grieving loss of life, loss of homes." The Chair then moved to procedural business, noting there was one addition to the agenda and that minutes from the Nov. 25 meeting were included in the packet; the transcript does not specify the nature of the addition.
Toward the end of the brief public portion, the Chair announced the body would go into what the transcript transcribes as a "flow session," and cited "NCGS143Dash318Dot1183." That citation corresponds to North Carolina General Statutes § 143-318.11, which governs closed (executive) sessions; the transcript records the citation but does not provide text of any motion, a second, or a recorded vote. The meeting record provided here contains no further public deliberations or votes.
The transcript does not identify any other agenda items, motions, or outcomes in the public record. No names beyond the functional speaker labels appear in the transcript, and no additional details about the agenda addition were provided.
