HomeMy WebLinkAbout080 - 06/03/2003 - AMENDING THE CITY CODE PERTAINING TO EXECUTIVE SESSIONS CONVENED FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSIDERING WATE ORDINANCE NO. 080, 2003
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AMENDING SUBSECTION 2-31(a)(3) OF THE CITY CODE
PERTAINING TO EXECUTIVE SESSIONS CONVENED FOR THE PURPOSE OF
CONSIDERING WATER AND REAL PROPERTY ACQUISITIONS AND SALES
WHEREAS, the City Charter, in Article II, Section 11, and the City Code, in subsection
2-31(a)(3), permit executive sessions to be held for the purpose of considering water and real
property acquisitions and sales by the City; and
WHEREAS, the City Code provision pertaining to these kinds of executive session
discussions is more restrictive than the City Charter provision and confines such discussions to the
consideration of appraisals and other value estimates and the consideration of strategy for the
acquisition or sale of such property; and
WHEREAS, questions of interpretation have arisen with regard to this Code language; and
WHEREAS, it is important for the City that the City Council be able to discuss potential
water and real property acquisitions and sales in executive session so that the negotiations related
to such acquisitions and sales are not compromised by the premature public disclosure of the City's
level of interest in a particular parcel of property, its strategy for the acquisition of the property, or
the maximum amount that the City is willing to pay for the property; and
WHEREAS, in order for the City Council and any affected City boards or commissions to
properly confine their executive session discussions to permitted topics, the regulations governing
such discussions should be unambiguously stated; and
WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to clarify the permissible scope of executive session
discussions pertaining to the acquisition and sale of water and real property; and
WHEREAS, the simplest approach to amending this Code provision is to eliminate the
foregoing limitation and to have the language of the provision simply mirror the language of the City
Charter, which states that executive sessions may be held to "consider water and real property
acquisition and sales by the city".
NOW, THEREFORE,BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that subsection 2-31(a)(3) of the City Code is hereby amended to read in its entirety as
follows:
(3) Consideration of water and real property acquisitions and sales by the city.
Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 20th day of
May, A.D. 2003, and to be presented for final passage on the 3rd day of June, A.D. 2003.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 3rd day of June, A.D. 2003.
Mayor ,..z.
ATTEST:
City Clerk