Council recesses into executive session to discuss personnel, litigation and real estate

A special-call city council meeting recessed on March 6, 2026, to move into an executive session to discuss personnel matters, potential or pending litigation, and real estate, the chair said.

The clerk conducted roll call and recorded Mayor Gwendolyn Ellison and multiple council members as present, after which the chair asked for any additions to the agenda and called for a vote to adopt it. The chair then announced a motion to recess the public meeting and enter executive session "for personnel, litigation, and real estate." A second was recorded and the chair asked, "All in favor?" to which the transcript records an "Aye." The chair then stated, "We will be moving into executive session at this time." All comments and actions in the provided transcript were on the record only up to the point of recess.

The transcript does not specify who formally made the motion or who seconded it by name, nor does it provide a roll-call vote tally; the decision to enter executive session was recorded as a voice affirmation. Because executive sessions are closed to the public under the council’s rules, deliberations on the stated topics will not appear in the public transcript. The provided record includes only the motion to recess and the announcement that the council was moving into executive session.