Mayor Nutter and 16 of 17 City Council members are meeting behind closed doors on the 14th floor of the Municipal Services Building, apparently to discuss the city's budget crisis. The press has not been allowed to enter, and an armed security is stationed outside of the meeting room. An attorney representing the Inquirer and the Daily News is now filing paperwork objecting to the meeting, which the newspapers believe is a violation of state open meetings laws.
On Oct. 23, the last time Mayor Nutter and a quorum of council met at a closed meeting, City Solicitor Shelley R. Smith wrote a letter outlining the city's view that the meetings were not required to be open to the public.
Asked if she felt the meeting was a legal one, Council President Anna Verna replied: "We're being told it is."
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