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Charles Town committee moves to executive session after debate over B&O waivers, license enforcement
Summary
After reviewing delinquent-license enforcement steps and recent B&O collections, the committee voted to untable items and go into executive session to discuss specific fee-waiver requests and enforcement with counsel present.
Finance committee members discussed stepped enforcement for delinquent business licenses — a sequence of polite notice, firmer notice, an assessed penalty and, if necessary, a lien or court action — and reported recent progress collecting previously delinquent B&O fees.
Staff said an assessment letter had been drafted for at least one business and that they were working with the city attorney to ensure the ordinance and the assessment language matched due-process expectations. A member said some enforcement conversations would require executive-session briefings because they will name businesses.
Near the end of the meeting a member moved to take previously tabled items off the table and to enter executive session to review license-fee waiver requests and enforcement cases. Members agreed; the clerk stopped recording as the body prepared to go into executive session.
No public votes or roll-call tallies were recorded in the transcript; the motion to enter executive session and to untable items was made on the record and carried by assent.
