In enacting this chapter, the city council finds, determines and declares as follows:
(a) State law acknowledges that there are limited circumstances in which the protection of the confidentiality of written or verbal communications is deemed to be more important than the right of the people to be informed.
(b) Maintaining the confidentiality of communications between the city and its legal counsel promotes and protects the candor that is essential to the delivery and receipt of legal advice regarding matters as to which such advice is requested.
(c) If communications that take place in closed sessions of the legislative body, as authorized by the Ralph M. Brown Act (Government Code Sections 54950 et seq.), do not remain confidential, then the purpose of those closed sessions is thwarted, effective governmental operations are compromised, and legitimate privacy interests of the city, and of its officers and employees, are impaired.
(Ord. 767 § 1 (part), 1998)