[00:00:01] COUNCIL MEMBER LUNA. [** This meeting is joined in progress **] COUNCIL MEMBER BURKHOLDER. PRESENT. COUNCIL MEMBER ACOSTA WILL BE HERE IN TWO MINUTES. COUNCIL MEMBER. I'M SORRY. MAYOR PRO TEM BHAT-PATEL. HERE. MAYOR BLACKBURN. PRESENT. SORT OF. ALL FIVE OF US ARE HERE. DO WE HAVE ANY SPEAKERS? WE HAVE NO SPEAKERS. [CLOSED SESSION] PLEASE TAKE US INTO CLOSED SESSION. THANK YOU MAYOR. THE COUNCIL IS GOING TO ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION TO DISCUSS PERSONNEL MATTERS. THE CLOSED SESSION IS BEING AUTHORIZED. OUR CLOSED SESSION IS AUTHORIZED BY GOVERNMENT CODE SECTIONS 54957 AND 54957.6. FIRST THE TOPICS OF THE CLOSED SESSION WILL BE PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION. THE EMPLOYEES BEING EVALUATED ARE THE CITY MANAGER AND CITY ATTORNEY. THERE WILL ALSO BE A CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS, AND THE CITY'S REPRESENTATIVES ARE JUDY VON KALINOWSKI, HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR, AND ALISON ALPERT BEST BEST AND KRIEGER. AND BECAUSE I HAVE A PERSONAL INTEREST IN THE OUTCOME OF THIS MATTER, ALISON ALPERT BEST BEST AND KRIEGER WILL BE SERVING AS SPECIAL COUNSEL FOR THE CITY COUNCIL. * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.