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2018 Op. Kan. Att'y Gen. 1 (2018)

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                                January 8, 2018


ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINION NO. 2018-1

Eric R. Yost
Sedgwick  County Counselor
525 North Main, Suite 359
Wichita, KS 67203-3731

Re:       State Departments; Public Officers and Employees-Public Officers
             and Employees; Open  Public Meetings-Closed  or Executive Meetings;
             Conditions; Authorized Subjects for Discussion


Synopsis:


A motion to recess into a closed or executive meeting may only utilize
one justification as listed in K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 75-4319(b), but multiple
subjects may be discussed  if those subjects fall within the justification
stated in the motion to recess into a closed or executive meeting. A
motion to recess into a closed or executive meeting must be recorded
in its entirety in the minutes of the public body or agency.   The
recording of the motion is not complete if it merely summarizes the
actual motion in a manner   that addresses only the three statutory
elements but omits other content of the motion as it was in fact made.
The statement describing the subject(s) to be discussed must be more
than a generic or vague  summary,  or a  list of the subject(s) to be
discussed.  The  determination of whether a motion to recess into a
closed or executive meeting sufficiently describes the subject(s) to be
discussed is a fact-sensitive question which must be determined on a
case-by-case  basis. Cited herein: K.S.A. 2017  Supp. 75-4317; 75-
4319; K.S.A. 2016 Supp. 75-4319.


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