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• Meetings to consider strategies for labor negotiations under PELRA. Although a meeting to consider strategies for labor negotiations may be closed,the actual negotiations must be done at an open meeting if a quorum of the council is present. Minn.Stat.§§13D.03;13D.01, Procedure. The following must be done to use this exception: subd.3. i. Before closing the meeting,the council must decide to close the meeting by a majority vote at a public meeting. ii. Before closing the meeting, the council must state on the record the specific grounds permitting the meeting to be closed and describe the subject to be discussed. iii. A written roll of all people present at the closed meeting must be available to the public after the closed meeting. iv. The meeting must be taped. V. The tape must be kept for two years after the contract is signed. vi. The tape becomes public after the labor agreement is finalized. If an action claiming that other public business was transacted at the closed meeting is brought during the time that the tape is not public,the court will review the record privately.If it finds no violation of the open meeting law, the action will be dismissed and the recording will be preserved in court records until it becomes available to the public. If the court determines that there may have been a violation,the entire recording may be introduced at the trial.However,the court may issue appropriate protective orders requested by either party. 14 League of Minnesota Cities