The members of a public body may hold an executive session for the purpose of any of the following matters:
(a) Unless the public employee, official, licensee or regulated individual requests a public hearing, to consider the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion or demotion of a public employee or official, or the investigation of charges or complaints against a public employee, official, licensee or regulated individual. Except as otherwise provided by law, no public body shall hold an executive session for the discipline of an elected official for conduct related to the performance of his or her official duties or for his or her removal from office.
(b) To consider the purchase of property for public purposes, or for the sale of property at competitive bidding, if premature disclosure of information would give an unfair competitive or bargaining advantage to a person whose personal, private interest is adverse to the general public interest. No member shall use this subsection as a subterfuge for providing covert information to prospective buyers or sellers. A purchase or sale of public property is void if the seller or buyer of the public property has received covert information from a member that has not been disclosed to the general public in sufficient time for other prospective buyers and sellers to prepare and submit offers.
If the minutes of the public body show that all meetings and deliberations of the public body have been conducted in compliance with this chapter, any instrument executed by the public body purporting to convey, lease or otherwise dispose of any right, title or interest in any public property shall be conclusively presumed to have been executed in compliance with this chapter insofar as title or other interest of any bona fide purchaser, lessee or transferee of the property is concerned.
(c) A conference with an attorney for the public body concerning disputes involving the public body that are the subject of pending or imminent court action;
(d) Preparing for, conducting or reviewing negotiations or bargaining sessions with public employees concerning their compensation or other terms and conditions of employment;
(e) Matters concerning the awarding of bids, contracts and purchases of materials, supplies, equipment and other miscellaneous items relating to the operation of the City;
(f) Matters required to be kept confidential by Federal law or rules or State statutes; and
(g) Specialized details of security arrangements where disclosure of the matters discussed might reveal information that could be used for the purpose of committing, or avoiding prosecution for, a violation of the law.
(Ord. 1983-74. Passed 10-19-83.)