(A) The Court may call an executive session upon a majority vote of the whole number of Justices comprising the Court. Executive sessions will be called only for the purpose of considering employment, appointment, promotion, demotion, disciplining, or resignation of any public officer or employee. The specific purpose of the executive session shall be announced in public before going into executive session.
(B) Only the person holding the top administrative position in the department or office involved, the immediate supervisor of the employee involved, and the employee may be present at the executive session when so requested by the Court.
(C) Any person being interviewed to fill a vacancy in a county office may be present at the executive session when so requested by the Court Commission.
(D) Executive sessions will never be called for the purpose of defeating the reason or the spirit of this chapter.
(E) No resolution, ordinance, rule, contract, regulation, or motion considered or arrived at in executive session will be legal unless, following the executive session, the Court reconvenes in public session and presents and votes on the resolution, ordinance, rule, contract, regulation, or motion.
(A.C.A. § 25-19-106) (Ord. 2001.01, passed 1-16-2001; Am. Ord. 2003.1, passed 1-6-2003; Am. Ord. 2005.1, passed 1-3-2005; Am. Ord. 2007.1, passed 1-8-2007; Am. Ord. 2009.1, passed 1-5-2009; Am. Ord. 2011.1, passed 1-3-2011; Am. Ord. 2013.1, passed 1-7-2013; Am. Ord. 2015.1, passed 1-5-2015; Am. Ord. 2017.1, passed 1-9-2017; Am. Ord. 2019.1, passed 1-7-2019; Am. Ord. 2023.1, passed 1-9-2023)