St. Helens council recesses to executive session, stops public recording

Following the vote to admit a KGW TV representative, the council directed attendees who would not participate in executive session to leave the Zoom meeting and to rejoin at 5:45 p.m. The chair explained that if staff removed an attendee from the meeting they might not be able to re-enter when the special session resumes.

"Anybody who is an attendee at this time, we ask that you before the executive session, we need you to remove yourself from the Zoom room. Otherwise, I will have to remove you, and you won't be able to come back in for the special session that resumes at 05:45 or later," the clerk said. Staff then confirmed they would stop the live stream and recording as the council entered executive session.

The meeting recording and live stream were stopped and the council entered executive session; staff confirmed one person who remained would not remove themself so that they could participate in the executive session.