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(6) Approval of an agreement concluding labor negotiations with represented employees
pursuant to Section 54957.6 shall be reported after the agreement is final and has been accepted
or ratified by the other party. The report shall identify the item approved and the other party or
parties to the negotiation.

(7) Pension fund investment transaction decisions made pursuant to Section 54956.81 shall be
disclosed at the first open meeting of the legislative body held after the earlier of the close of the
investment transaction or the transfer of pension fund assets for the investment transaction.

(b) Reports that are required to be made pursuant to this section may be made orally or in
writing. The legislative body shall provide to any person who has submitted a written request to
the legislative body within 24 hours of the posting of the agenda, or to any person who has made
a standing request for all documentation as part of a request for notice of meetings pursuant to
Section 54954.1 or 54956, if the requester is present at the time the closed session ends, copies of
any contracts, settlement agreements, or other documents that were finally approved or adopted
in the closed session. If the action taken results in one or more substantive amendments to the
related documents requiring retyping, the documents need not be released until the retyping is
completed during normal business hours, provided that the presiding officer of the legislative
body or his or her designee orally summarizes the substance of the amendments for the benefit of
the document requester or any other person present and requesting the information.

(c) The documentation referred to in subdivision (b) shall be available to any person on the next
business day following the meeting in which the action referred to is taken or, in the case of
substantial amendments, when any necessary retyping is complete.

(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require that the legislative body approve actions
not otherwise subject to legislative body approval.

(e) No action for injury to a reputational, liberty, or other personal interest may be commenced
by or on behalf of any employee or former employee with respect to whom a disclosure is made
by a legislative body in an effort to comply with this section.

(f) This section is necessary to implement and reasonably within the scope of paragraph (1) of
subdivision (b) of Section 3 of Article I of the California Constitution.

54957.2. Minute book record for closed sessions; inspection

(a) The legislative body of a local agency may, by ordinance or resolution, designate a clerk or
other officer or employee of the local agency who shall then attend each closed session of the
legislative body and keep and enter in a minute book a record of topics discussed and decisions
made at the meeting. The minute book made pursuant to this section is not a public record
subject to inspection pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Division 10 (commencing
with Section 7920.000) of Title 1) and shall be kept confidential. The minute book shall be
available only to members of the legislative body or, if a violation of this chapter is alleged to
have occurred at a closed session, to a court of general jurisdiction wherein the local agency lies.
The minute book may, but need not, consist of a recording of the closed session.

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