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Chair announces council will recess into executive session to consider personnel matter
Summary
The chair said the council would recess its open meeting and convene a closed executive session to consider the employment of a public officer, employee, staff member or individual agent, citing ORS 192.660 and asking media not to disclose the discussion.
The council recessed its open meeting and moved into a closed executive session to consider employment matters, the chair said.
The chair told attendees, "So council will recess open public meeting to convene a closed executive session to consider the employment or of a public officer, employee, staff member, or individual agent," and later added, "Pursuant to ORS 192.660," citing the statutory basis for a personnel executive session. The chair also urged that "members of the media and other attendees not disclose matters discussed in the executive setting," then closed the public portion of the meeting.
Why it matters: Oregon law allows local governing bodies to meet in executive session for certain personnel matters; those sessions are closed to the public and reporters while the council considers confidential employment issues. The transcript records only the council's decision to recess to the executive session and the statutory citation; it does not include any discussion of the personnel matter itself because the meeting moved into a closed session.
What happened next: After the chair announced the recess and the media restriction, the public portion of the meeting was closed. The transcript does not record any votes, motions with movers or seconders, or substantive deliberations in public; details of the executive-session discussion were not included in the record provided.
No further public action is recorded in the transcript.
