City Council - Special Meeting
The Vallejo City Council held a special meeting to discuss the appointment of a new City Manager. After a closed session, the council provided direction to their special outside counsel and HR director regarding the appointment.
About this meeting
- Government Body
- City Council
- Meeting Type
- City Council
- Location
- Vallejo, CA
- Meeting Date
- July 21, 2026
Transcript
35 sections
GO AHEAD AND CALL OUR SPECIAL MEETING TO ORDER. IT IS NOW CURRENTLY 744. IF YOU COULD PLEASE HAVE ROLL CALL. AND I KNOW DAWN SAID SHE WAS JOINING US VIRTUALLY.
HI, VICE MAYOR. HI. MAYOR SORS. PRESENT. VICE MAYOR MITULIK.
PRESENT.
COUNCIL MEMBERS GORDON.
PRESENT.
She said present. I see her there. Matias.
Here.
Palmares.
Present. Thank you for that. And then, City Attorney, could you please read the closed session item?
Yes, thank you, Mr. Vice Mayor. The City Council will meet in closed session this evening with regard to the following item. Public employee appointment pursuant to government code section 54957B1. The title is City Manager.
Thank you for that. And do we need to have the public comment for this or if anybody wants to chime in?
Yes, you can open public comment.
Okay, so I would ask Manny to start the two minute clock and anyone wishing to speak on this closed session agenda item, please go in the back of the kiosk to fill in that information or those online, please raise your hand. And so as we wait for this two minutes to chime down, I do not believe we have any in-person speakers. Manny, do we have any online speakers wishing to speak on this item?
Through the Vice Mayor, thank you so much. We do not currently have any members of the public with their hands raised to speak on this item at this current time. However, there is a clock on the top left corner of the screen for interested parties to sign up to speak on this item. If you're interested, we can continue to wait for the entire minute, or if you're willing to close it up, then it's entirely up to you.
Yeah, let's go ahead and let's give like 10 more seconds and we'll go ahead and close it out. And then if there is anybody that chimes in before that, the rest of the 40 seconds comes in, let us know and we can have them go on the record for any comments. So let's go ahead and adjourn back to council chambers waiting for, and we'll have Manny out here to see if there's any public comment for this closed session agenda item.
THROUGH THE VICE MAYOR, NO SPEAKERS AT THIS TIME. NONE?
OKAY.
THANK YOU FOR THAT, MANNY.
WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CLOSE OUT AND GO BACK FOR OUR CLOSED SESSION ITEM. THANK YOU.
Okay, see you later, sir. Yes, thank you.
I'll be around.
Okay.
You have something you want to say? No, thank you.
Do you have my number correct? I don't.
Are you gonna be here?
You know, I wish I could tell you. But when Amy was saying, or April was saying, it's gonna be . I don't need to slide in here.
That's me, so that's my phone number. Yeah, no, no, no, I've got your number, so I'm just showing you how do you think.
I've got to go clean up a few things, but if they come out or come here, I'll help you.
Yes.
And then she will log out of the meeting and then log back in.
Michelle, if you can log out of the meeting and then log back in, please. Michelle, if you can log out of the meeting and then log back in, please.
Okay.
Okay.
Thank you.
I'm gonna report out now. calling us back to order from our closed session. And so I will go ahead and do the report out from our closed session. So in regards to item 3A, public employee appointment pursuant to government code section 54957B1, we as a city council gave direction to our special outside council along with our HR director and provided direction therewith. So thank you. Yes, go ahead and adjourn the meeting.
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