City Council - Special Meeting

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

The Vallejo City Council convened a special meeting to discuss a public employee appointment for the city manager position, existing litigation involving the ACLU of Northern California and Kroll, and two cases of anticipated litigation. No public comments were received.

About this meeting

Government Body: City Council
Meeting Type: City Council
Location: Vallejo, CA
Meeting Date: July 14, 2026

11 sections

8:44•Speaker 3

All right, good afternoon slash evening. I'm going to go ahead and call to order the special meeting of Vallejo City Council, and I'll ask our clerk to conduct the roll call.

8:53•Speaker 1

Mayor Soares. Present. Vice Mayor Matulak.

8:56•Speaker 4

Present.

8:56•Speaker 1

Council Members Bergenzer. Present. Gordon.

8:59•Speaker 4

Present.

9:00•Speaker 1

I will note for the record, Council Members Letajue, Matias, and Paul Maris are currently absent.

9:07 – 9:24•Speaker 3

All right, thank you. We have a closed session this evening, and we'll go ahead and open up public comment for anyone wishing to address the council on items on our closed session agenda. If we don't have anyone in person, which it doesn't look like we do, while we let that timer run, I will turn it over to our city attorney to announce our closed session items.

9:24 – 10:23•Speaker 4

Thank you, Madam Mayor. The City Council will meet this evening in closed session with regard to the following items. Public employee appointment pursuant to government code section 54957B1 title city manager. Item B, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.91 ACLU of Northern California versus The Vallejo Police Department, Solano County Superior Court case as listed on the agenda. Item C, Conference with Legal Counsel, existing litigation pursuant to California Government Code Section 54956.91, Kroll versus the City of Vallejo, Solano County Superior Court case as listed on the agenda. And finally, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, significant exposure to litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9 D2, two cases.

10:25•Speaker 3

All right. Thank you. Do we have any public commenters?

10:29•Speaker 2

Through the mayor, we do not have any members of the public who have signed up either in person or online.

10:34 – 11:15•Speaker 3

All right. We've got about 30 seconds left, so let's let the timer run just to be safe, and then we will head into closed session. All right, presuming we don't have any commenters, I will note for the record that Council Member Matias has joined us, and I will go ahead and adjourn us into closed session.

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