City Council - Regular Meeting

Yes. Me.

Good afternoon. We would like to call this emergency meeting to order. Madam clerk, can you call the roll?

Ms. Chandian? Here. Ms. Benantemena? Here. Mr. Noel?

Here.

Mr. Seinberg?

Here.

Mr. Venable?

Here.

Mr. Damien?

Here.

Ms. Gill? Here. Ms. Walker? Here.

Thank you. We have a full board discussion. I'm sorry, thank you. Mr. would you open up and advise? Why are we here today? Thank you.

Yes, so at the last meeting, we had a closed session discussion, which I cannot reveal the closed session discussion, but any pursuant to general statute 143 318 11, a 6. Any final action on a personnel matter needs to be taken in open session. So. We will need to vote. consistent with the town's, with the board's discussion on Monday night, that needs to be memorialized in a vote in open session. So that's why we're here today. So my suggestion would just be to make the motion and allow the board to vote on it. To the extent there is any request for further discussion, that discussion needs to happen in closed session. So there'll be a motion a second. If there's any discussion, we'll need to go into closed session for that. If it's just to memorialize the vote, we need to do that in open session.

Thank you so much. All right. I would like to proceed.

Thank you. I would like to make the motion. Number one, to eliminate the city manager contract. Number two, make an assistant to assistant city manager, Kendrick Van Endram, city manager for six months. NUMBER THREE, ELIMINATING THE POSITION OF ASSISTANT TO ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER OF HENSON.

SECOND. MAYOR, CAN WE

Have any discussion at all? Yes.

So there is, because it is a vote, there is a, in a second, there is a period for discussion. Again, that discussion needs to occur in closed session if there's discussion on the motion.

Can we have any clarity on the motion made? Just gave it to you.

In what sense?

Well, first of all, I don't think we have an assistant to the assistant city manager. I don't think that position is...

I believe that the role, the title of his role currently is assistant to the city manager.

Right, but the motion is the assistant to the assistant city manager, if I heard correctly. It's just a minor thing, but I just want to make sure.

That probably could be amended. to clarify that the position that Mr. Vann is in currently is assistant to the city manager. And as I understand, the intent of the vote is to eliminate that position.

Yes, sir. Assistant to assistant? No, Vann.

Just the assistant to the city manager.

Thank you for the clarity. All right. If you want to have professional and go-to-go session, if not, please call the room. I'd like to have some discussion, please. Okay. Are you calling the go-to-go session? If that's what we have to do.

Any discussion of this motion? Yes. Because it's personnel under 168.

You want to make a motion to go to a closed session? I'd like to make a motion to go to a closed session. Do we have a second?

Second.

All right.

Motion to go to a closed session.