Sacramento City Council calls special meeting to move into closed session on litigation and labor talks

At 1:02 p.m., the presiding official called a special meeting of the Sacramento City Council to adjourn into closed session to consider three items involving litigation and labor negotiations.

The chair said the first item was a conference with legal counsel regarding existing litigation under Government Code section 54956.9(d)(1), naming a lawsuit against the City of Sacramento in Sacramento Superior Court, case number 24 CV 017958. The second item was listed as a possible initiation of litigation under Government Code section 54956.9(d)(4)(i). The third item was a conference with labor negotiators under Government Code section 54957.6; the council named Marcia Smith, Aaron Donato and Tim Davis as designated representatives and listed the Sacramento Police Officers Association and Sacramento Area Firefighters, Local 522 as the affected employee organizations.

“Good afternoon. I call to order a special meeting for the purpose of a closed session,” the chair said during the opening of the meeting. The chair also confirmed a quorum and stated that there were no members of the public signed up to speak on the closed-session items.

The meeting then moved to the procedural step of adjourning into closed session to address the three items the council had announced. The public portion of the special meeting concluded with the presiding official directing the council to proceed to closed session; the transcript ends after that direction.

Because the items are scheduled for closed session under the cited Government Code provisions, further details about the substance of the litigation or negotiations were not discussed on the public record during this session.