Commission schedules executive sessions on sheriff issues, alternative energy and EMS

Commissioners noted the presence of the sheriff, an undersheriff and Pat Harrison from finance and agreed to a 30-minute executive session on non-elected personnel to meet with sheriff's staff. Tom separately asked for a 10-minute executive session under attorney-client privilege to discuss alternative energy at the end of the meeting: "I might ask for a 10-minute executive session and attorney client privilege at the end of the meeting for 10 minutes pertaining to alternative energy." The commission also moved into a 10-minute executive session under non-elected personnel regarding EMS later in the agenda.

Each executive-session motion was made and seconded on the record; the transcript records approval of the motions but does not provide verbatim roll-call vote tallies. The commission scheduled the sessions in accordance with the items listed on the agenda and directed staff to proceed with the closed-door discussions as allowed under the relevant statutes governing executive sessions.