City Council - Regular Meeting

Wednesday, September 9, 2026Official site

The San Ramon City Council held a special meeting to provide direction to labor negotiators regarding grievances from SEIU and the Police Officer Association concerning retirement contributions, ultimately reporting no specific outcomes from the closed session. A public commenter raised concerns about the negotiations, which the city attorney later clarified.

About this meeting

Government Body
City Council
Meeting Type
City Council
Location
San Ramon, CA
Meeting Date
September 9, 2026

Published excerpts

Only published remarks appear here. The full transcript is not published.

9 sections

0:24•Mark Armstrong

Okay, good evening. I'm going to call to order the special meeting of the City Council for September 8th, 2026. Please call the roll.

0:38 – 1:20•Mark Armstrong

Here. All right, we're going to move to item two, closed session. Item 2.1 is convened a closed session pursuant to government code 54957.6 to meet with the city's labor negotiators, Megan O'Donohue, Stephen Spadowski, and Martin License for direction to city negotiators Regarding a grievance brought by SEIU and the POA concerning retirement contributions, any settlement will also apply to retirement contributions to unrepresented miscellaneous employees. And let me ask if anyone wishes to make any statements before we call for public comment. Vice Mayor Rubio?

1:21 – 1:32•Marisol Rubio

Okay. I was just going to say, as I previously announced to this council during this special meeting, August 24, I'm recusing myself from this item to avoid appearance of conflict. Okay.

1:32 – 1:43•Mark Armstrong

All right. Thank you. So then at this time, I'm going to open up public comment on item 2.1. Public comment is open. Do we have any speaker cards?

2:23•Mark Armstrong

Okay, again, public comment is open and please limit your comments to three minutes.

5:32•Mark Armstrong

All right. Thank you. Any other comments?

5:43 – 5:55•Mark Armstrong

Okay. All right. Thank you. Then I'm going to close public comment and we're going to convene to close session. We will come back at the end of closed session and report out and we'll be back in a few minutes.

17:39 – 18:03•Mark Armstrong

Okay, we are going to report out on the closed session. The city council met in closed session, and we gave direction to our staff negotiators, and we had nothing to report at this time. I would like our city attorney, city manager team to make any clarifying comments on what we heard earlier, though, during the open session.

18:35 – 18:47•Mark Armstrong

All right. Thank you. And with that, I'm going to adjourn the special meeting of city council. For everyone else, please stand by. We'll begin the regular session.

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