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Tuskegee County supervisors appoint negotiating team for talks with CDFW after closed session
Summary
After a closed session, the Tuskegee County Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 to authorize a negotiating team to handle discussions with CDFW and named members including Vice Chair Harris, Jim Smith, Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue, Dean Morgan and Joanne Johnson.
The Tuskegee County Board of Supervisors on reconvening reported a closed session and announced a 4-0 vote to form a negotiating team to handle talks with CDFW.
The Clerk said, "The Board of Supervisors entered closed session at 10:15AM. Board exited at 12:11PM. 1 item of 1 reportable action item is that the board decided by 4 to 0 vote to have a negotiating team and made appointments of those members." The board did not provide additional written materials at the time of the announcement.
The Clerk read the appointees named to serve on the negotiating team: the Chair; Vice Chair Harris; the ad commissioner, Jim Smith; the sheriff, Jeremiah LaRue; county counsel Dean Morgan; and Joanne Johnson from the CAO's office. The Clerk identified the team's counterpart as "CDFW," naming the California agency involved in the talks, and said the team was appointed in connection with one of the items characterized as anticipated litigation.
The vote was recorded as 4 in favor, 0 opposed. No mover or seconder was stated in the public remarks. The board did not provide a public split of board members' spoken views during the roll call; the only public record in the reconvened session was the Clerk's readout of the closed-session action and the list of appointees.
Next steps were not specified on the record: the Clerk declined to provide further details about the specifics of the negotiations or timelines beyond saying the appointment was related to anticipated litigation involving CDFW.
