Councilmember moves to authorize mayor to negotiate town manager employment agreement

A councilmember moved on the Sunnyvale Town Council floor to authorize the mayor, in consultation with the town attorney, to negotiate an employment agreement with a candidate for town manager. "I make a motion to authorize the mayor in consultation with the town attorney to negotiate the terms of an employment agreement with a certain candidate for town manager," the councilmember said during the open session following the council's return from executive session.

The motion was seconded (recorded as second by Miss Scarlet), but the transcript does not record a vote on the authorization before the council proceeded to a motion to adjourn. The exchange as recorded shows the motion and second were placed on the record and that the presiding officer asked for additional discussion; no further vote tally for this specific motion appears in the provided transcript.

The council had been in a closed executive session just prior to this motion; the meeting returned to open session at 7:28 p.m. The transcript shows six members present during the meeting and one member absent. The motion to authorize negotiation, if approved in a subsequent or unrecorded vote, would empower the mayor to finalize terms for hiring the town's top appointed official in consultation with legal counsel.

Next steps were not recorded in the transcript excerpt provided. The record shows the council subsequently moved to adjourn; the transcript records the adjournment vote as passing 6-0.