Business council took in closed session, and the legal ground it gave for shutting the public out.

Behind closed doors in 2026

18 meetings with business council marked confidential, 38 items in all, as named on council's own agendas.

An ordinary meeting often lists a confidential item that a committee closed its doors for a week earlier; the ordinary meeting adopts the committee's recommendation, and council may not make a resolution while a meeting is closed, so the ground is usually minuted only at the committee. Check anything that matters against the meeting page and council's own minutes.