Council unanimously moves to executive session on legal and economic-development matters

Council made and approved a motion to adjourn the work session and move to executive session to confer with the city attorney on disputes that are the subject of pending or imminent court action and to consider confidential economic-development assistance information under Ohio Revised Code 121.22(G)(8). The motion passed on a roll-call vote recorded as YAYS: Perry, Croucher, Montgomery, Nichols, Proffitt, Roark, Butts (7) at 6:39 PM.

Later, council made a motion to adjourn the executive session and to adjourn the meeting; roll call again recorded the same seven YAYS and the meeting adjourned at 7:26 PM. The minutes identify the executive-session statutory basis and the topics as legal disputes and economic-development assistance related to infrastructure or utility extension (AWS and Township discussion).