Palmer council may meet in closed session Tuesday on an ethics complaint

The Palmer City Council may go into a closed executive session Tuesday to discuss an ethics and governance complaint regarding the city that Drew Frohling filed with the city clerk's office Oct. 19.

The complaint isn't in the council's 212-page meeting packet, and the agenda doesn't say what it alleges or whom it concerns.

The agenda cites three of the grounds allowed for closing a discussion: matters whose immediate public knowledge would clearly hurt the city's finances, subjects that could hurt a person's reputation and character, and the council's need for legal advice from its attorney on the complaint. A person whose reputation is at issue may ask for the discussion to be held in public.

Under Palmer's executive session rules, a majority of the council's total authorized membership must vote to go into the session, and the motion must describe the subject "clearly and with specificity." The clerk records the session on audio and video and keeps the recording sealed, and the council sets a date for its release afterward. The agenda says the council may take action after the session.

The meeting starts at 6 pm in Council Chambers. The closed session is the last item, after a vote on $960,509 more for the new library and more work on the 2027 budget.