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. MINUTES OF THE REGULAR ORONO COUNCIL MEETING HELD MAY 9, 1988 CITY ATTORNEY'S REPORT: RECORDING REQUIREMENTS - OPEN MEETING LAW City Attorney Barrett reported on, the State of Minnesota's requirements regarding the Open Meeting Law which has very few exceptions. The only two exceptions to the Open Meeting Law that may be relevant to Council proceedings are: 1) Labor negotiations - Taping of the closed meeting is required and becomes public information when the contract is completed. 2) The privilege involving any pending or threatened litigation. These closed sessions are not required to be taped or later to become public -information. According the the Data Privacy Act, any documents created for the litigation are considered private documents not available to the public for the pendency of the litigation or until such point that it appears the litigation is going to go away the documents then become public information. Regarding the Attorney - Client privilege, Councilmember • Callahan asked to what extent conversations by the client would initiate this. City Attorney Barrett stated that in a private law suit -_ situation where he has a document or a conversation - with someone and claims an attorney - client privilege to this information. This privilege can be lost if the _ document appears in the paper or otherwise given to third parties and becomes a moot issue in regards to - privileged information. LICENSES* City Attorney Barrett requested an Executive Session at this time to discuss a settlement matter which is allowed under the Attorney - Client Privilege. It was moved by Councilmember Sime, seconded by Councilmember Peterson, to approve the following licenses: Septic System Installers - Quickway Excavating Coppin Plumbing Garbage & Refuse Collectors - Blackowiak and Sons Woodlanke Sanitary Service, Inc. East Tonka Sanitation Motion, Ayes 5, Nays 0. 20