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Reminder: City meeting on Land Acquisition today

What Land Acquisition is to be discussed by City Council today? Anyone who is curious should attend the 1:00pm Special Called Meeting of the Columbia City Council today. As of now, the details remain a mystery.

By Ed Waggener

The agenda announced Friday, January 23, 2009, for today's meeting Monday, January 26, 2009, at 1:00pmCT, of the Columbia City Council, in City Hall, lists two items on the agenda: "1) Discussion of Land Acquisition 2) Executive Session Discussion of Possible Land Acquisition."

NOTES:

The clear inference in the announcement is that the Council will be discussing buying property for use by the City, unless one has a question about, "what the meaning of the word 'is' is."

KRS 61.823, related to "Special and Emergency Meetings" states: "Discussions and action at the meeting shall be limited to items listed on the agenda".

The use of the Executive Session for the "Discussion of Possible Land Acquisition," is limited. KRS 61.180(b) states that governmental units may go into executive session to discuss future acquisition or sale of real property by a public agency, "but only when publicity would be likely to affect the value of a specific piece of property to be acquired for public use or sold by a public agency." (Emphasis ours. -CM).





This story was posted on 2009-01-26 07:58:42
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