From the Daily Camera (Boulder):  Boulder’s city charter requires that all meetings be open to the public, and that same public has rejected previous efforts to give the Boulder City Council the executive session authority allowed under state law.

Boulder City Council members hope voters will see the issue differently if the only reason they can enter closed session is to receive legal advice related to municipalization.

Boulder Issue 2B would allow the City Council to meet privately to receive legal advice related to municipalization and discuss negotiation strategy. Entering executive session would require a two-thirds vote of the council, and any two members could immediately suspend the session if the discussion strayed into other areas. The authority would expire at the end of 2017.

Boulder is engaged in a multi-front legal battle with Xcel Energy over the formation of the utility, and City Council members believe they are at a disadvantage because they cannot meet as a group to discuss legal issues.

“There is so much at stake that I hope the voters will give us a break for a few years,” Boulder Mayor Matt Appelbaum said.

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