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City of Westfir announces executive session under ORS 192.660(2)(a) to consider employment
Summary
Council announced it would move into an executive session under ORS 192.660(2)(a) to consider employment matters; the mayor read the statutory authority and instructed the press not to disclose deliberations.
The City of Westfir council announced it would go into executive session under Oregon statute ORS 192.660(2)(a) to consider the employment of a public officer or employee. The mayor read the statutory citation aloud and explained that representatives of the news media may attend but are directed not to report on or disclose what is said during the session beyond the general subject previously announced.
Council members explicitly stated that no binding decision would be made during the executive session. The council recessed to executive session and later reconvened the special meeting to take a formal vote on hiring.
The executive session notice cited ORS 192.660(2)(a), the state statute that allows public bodies to meet in closed session to consider hiring and personnel matters. The council’s announcement included instructions about readmitting members of the public at the session’s end and reiterated the limits on reporting deliberations.
