Assembly’s executive session was valid and necessary

An executive session is not an exception to the Open Meetings Act but rather a portion of a public meeting conducted in private with only members of the governing body and those invited in by the governing body. Alaska Statute 44.62.310(b) authorizes a public body to meet in an executive session under strictly limited circumstances. The allowable subjects include “(1) matters, the immediate knowledge of which would clearly have an adverse effect upon the finances…