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Spring City council moves to consider closed session on possible litigation
Summary
Council members moved to convert a special July 30 meeting to a closed session to discuss possible litigation; a roll-call was taken and members debated the legal vote threshold before briefly leaving and then returning to open session.
The Chair opened a special Spring City council meeting July 30 and said the council might discuss possible litigation in a closed session. "We need to make a motion to turn this into a closed meeting," the Chair said during the meeting's early minutes, and a motion was made and seconded.
Council members then conducted an on-the-record poll of members present; names spoken during the roll call and vote included Michael Flynn, Michael Redmond, Chris Anderson, Laura Wharton and Dan Soper. During the tally the Chair observed, "That's not 0.667," indicating concern about the legal threshold required for a closed meeting. The council turned off Zoom and later returned to open session in the council chambers.
The meeting record shows the council discussed the closed-session motion and briefly left the public livestream before reopening. The meeting minutes do not include a formal, unambiguous statement in the transcript that the legal threshold was met; the Chair's on-record comment raises procedural questions about whether the threshold was achieved.
