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Austin Leaders Go Private on Key City Roles

Tuesday, March 9, 2021 Austin City Council Special Called Meeting
  • Austin leaders held a special meeting conducted entirely in a closed-door executive session via video conference.
  • Discussions in the private session focused on personnel matters concerning the City Clerk and City Manager, as well as legal matters for specific agenda items (2-5).
  • No public decisions were made, and there was no public discussion on policy topics, including COVID-19 related matters, which were on the agenda but not addressed publicly.

Full Transcript

City Council Special Called Meeting Transcript – 03/09/2021 Title: City of Austin Channel: 6 - COAUS Recorded On: 3/9/2021 6:00:00 AM Original Air Date: 3/9/2021 Transcript Generated by SnapStream ================================== Please note that the following transcript is for reference purposes and does not constitute the official record of actions taken during the meeting. For the official record of actions of the meeting, please refer to the Approved Minutes. [11:19:13 AM] >> Mayor Adler: It is the city council special called meeting, March 9, 2021. This meeting is being held via video conference. Colleagues, we set this to be able to get into executive session to continue the conversation we had before. Um ... If there are no objections, I'm going to have us go straight over to executive session meeting. Um ... I anticipate this probably ending a little before noon or thereabouts, at which point I would come back out and end the city council meeting, unless the colleagues, unless you all want to further address the covid-19 related matters, which we put on the agenda, just in case there was someone that wanted to be able to continue in that vain. [11:20:13 AM] But for now, the city council will now go into closed session to take up four items, pursuant to 55107 four of the government code, we'll discuss personnel matters related to items 2, 3, 4, fiefshgs duties, assignments and informants of the city clerk, [?] And city manager. Without objection, here at 11:20 we'll recess this meeting and go into closed executive session. And I'll see you guys there. [Closed session] [1:09:29 PM] >> Mayor Adler: We are out of closed session. In closed session we discussed legal matters for items: 2, 3, 4 and 5. It is March 9th, 2021. The time is 1:09 P.M. And that concludes all our business for today. So I am hereby adjourning the special called city council meeting. Thank you very much. Take care.