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RELEVANT LINKS: <br />See Closing a Meeting from <br />The closed meeting must be recorded. The recording must be preserved for <br />DPO. <br />Vik v. Wild Rice Watershed <br />eight years and must be made available to the public only after all real or <br />Dist., No. A09-1841(Minn. <br />personal property discussed at the meeting has been purchased or sold, or <br />Ct. App. Aug. 10, 2010) <br />(unpublished decision) <br />after the public body has abandoned the purchase or sale. The real or <br />(holding that this exception <br />personal property that is being discussed must be identified on the <br />authorizes closing a <br />meeting to discuss the <br />recording. A list of members and all other persons present at the closed <br />development or <br />meeting must be made available to the public after the closed meeting. The <br />consideration of a property <br />transaction and is not <br />actual purchase or sale of the real or personal property must be approved at <br />limited to the discussion of <br />an open meeting, and the purchase or sale price is public data. <br />specific terms of advanced <br />negotiations). DPO 08-001. <br />DPO 14-014. <br />7. Security reports <br />Minn. Stat. § 13D.05, subd. <br />Meetings may be closed to receive security briefings and reports, to discuss <br />3 (d). <br />issues related to security systems, to discuss emergency -response <br />procedures, and to discuss security deficiencies in or recommendations <br />regarding public services, infrastructure, and facilities, if disclosure of the <br />information would pose a danger to public safety or compromise security <br />procedures or responses. Financial issues related to security matters must be <br />discussed and all related financial decisions must be made at an open <br />meeting. <br />Before closing a meeting under this exception, the public body must, when <br />describing the subject to be discussed, refer to the facilities, systems, <br />procedures, services or infrastructures to be considered during the closed <br />See closing a Meeting from <br />meeting. The closed meeting must be recorded, and the recording must be <br />DPO. <br />preserved for at least four years. <br />H. Common issues <br />1. Interviews <br />Channel 10, Inc. v. rndep. <br />The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled that a school board must interview <br />Sch. Dist. No. 709,215 <br />N.w.2d 814 (Minn. 1974). <br />prospective employees for administrative positions in open sessions. The <br />court reasoned that the absence of a statutory exception indicated that the <br />Legislature intended such sessions to be open. <br />As a result, a city council should conduct any interviews of prospective <br />officers and employees at an open meeting if a quorum or more of the <br />council will be present. <br />Mankato Free Press v. City <br />The Minnesota Court of Appeals considered a situation where individual <br />of North Mankato, 563 <br />N.w.2d 291(Minn. Ct. <br />council members conducted separate, serial interviews of candidates for a <br />App. 1997). <br />city position in one-on-one closed interviews. <br />League of Minnesota Cities Handbook for Minnesota Cities 8/30/2022 <br />Meetings, Motions, Resolutions, and Ordinances Chapter 7 1 Page 18 <br />