Mount Rainier council votes to enter closed session to discuss personnel and legal advice

The Mount Rainier City Council voted to go into a closed session to discuss personnel matters and to consult the city attorney for legal advice, the meeting chair said during a brief session that concluded at 9:21 p.m.

The chair opened the meeting by leading the agenda review and reading the statutory basis for a closed session under "General Provisions Article 3-305(b)," identifying subsection 1 (personnel matters) and subsection 7 (consultation with counsel) as the grounds for a closed meeting. The chair announced a planned closed session on Tuesday, March 24 to address those matters.

"I motion to go into closed sessions for item number 1 and number 7 that were previously read in the into the agenda," the chair said, then called for a second. Members recorded vocal seconds and the chair announced the council would enter a closed session. The transcript records the motion and the chair's announcement that the council had entered closed session; it does not record the substance of the closed discussion.

After the closed session, a council member moved to come out of closed session and the chair announced the council had returned to open session. The council then approved a motion to adjourn; the chair declared the meeting adjourned at 9:21 p.m.

The transcript identifies the body as the City Council of Mount Rainier and cites the statutory authority that the council referenced on the record. The public portions of the meeting recorded in the transcript were procedural: agenda review, the reading of the statutory basis for a closed session, the motion to close, the return from closed session, and adjournment. The transcript does not provide details of the personnel matters or the legal advice discussed in closed session.