Long Branch City Council adopts R-131-26 and moves into executive session to discuss attorney-client matters and an administrator update

The Long Branch City Council voted to close the public portion of its meeting and adopt Resolution R-131-26 to enter an executive session to discuss attorney-client privileged matters and an update from Administrator Shirley. The motion to close the public portion was moved and seconded and carried on a voice vote. The resolution was read and adopted following a second and an affirmative voice vote, after which the chair announced that the council would go into executive session.

The meeting record shows the chair called the roll and recorded Sir Assis, Mr. Beer, Mrs. Wittis and Dr. Vote as present and Mr. Bangler as absent before the council moved to close the public portion. A meeting official certified that the meeting had been published in the newspaper and posted as required by the Open Public Meetings Act.

The resolution was introduced on the floor as "Resolution number R-131-26: Be it resolved that the city council will go into executive session to discuss the following: attorney-client privilege, administrative Shirley's update by Administrator Shirley." The transcript does not record who specifically moved or seconded the motions by name; both motions were seconded and approved by voice vote.

No substantive discussion of the attorney-client matters or Administrator Shirley's update appears in the public transcript; the council announced it would continue the conversation in executive session, where deliberations are closed to the public under the Open Public Meetings Act.

Attendance and procedural details from the public portion: four members were recorded present and one was absent at roll call; the meeting notice certification was read into the record before the council recessed to the executive session. The council took no further public actions in the portion of the transcript provided.