Indications are there will be a special council meeting within days. The special convening will take up the recent action concerning the discontinuance of the Columbia Historic Market House Trust’s management of the Market House.

Citizens, most likely (according to Pennsylvania’s Sunshine Act – extracts appear below), may attend this special meeting.

“‘Special meeting.’ A meeting scheduled by an agency after the agency’s regular schedule of meetings has been established.

Ҥ 704. Open meetings. Official action and deliberations by a quorum of the members of an agency shall take place at a meeting open to the public unless closed under section 707 (relating to exceptions to open meetings), 708 (relating to executive sessions) or 712 (relating to General Assembly meetings covered).

Ҥ 707. Exceptions to open meetings.

(a) Executive session. — An agency may hold an executive session under section 708 (relating to executive sessions).

(b) Conference. — An agency is authorized to participate in a conference which need not be open to the public. Deliberation of agency business may not occur at a conference.

(c) Certain working sessions. — Boards of auditors may conduct working sessions not open to the public for the purpose of examining, analyzing, discussing and deliberating the various accounts and records with respect to which such boards are responsible, so long as official action of a board with respect to such records and accounts is taken at a meeting open to the public and subject to the provisions of this chapter.”