Council votes to enter executive session to receive legal advice on ongoing litigation

A council member moved and another member seconded that the Mountain View Town Council enter an executive session to receive legal advice regarding ongoing litigation under Colorado statute CRS 24-6-402(4)(b).

The motion was made by a council member and seconded by a resident who was present and formally stated "2nd." The clerk called the roll for the executive session vote; four members explicitly answered "yes" when called, and the chair declared the motion carried. The transcript records the roll calls and affirmative responses but does not capture a clear affirmative response from one member called near the end of the roll call, so the publicly recorded tally reflects the explicitly recorded "yes" responses in the transcript.

Prior to recessing, the chair raised an unresolved information‑leakage concern involving magistrates and said the allegation that the chair was part of that lawsuit was false, adding that they would not recuse themselves. The council then prepared to move into the private executive session where attorneys would provide legal advice. No substantive legal advice or content of the executive session was recorded in open session.