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

handle is hein.sag/sagks0090 and id is 1 raw text is: 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. * * *