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Embattled city Coun. Jeromy Farkas has released details on just how much time the city’s Olympic Assessment Committee spends discussing a potential bid away from the public eye.

Numbers from Farkas, who has repeatedly called for a reduction of council’s closed-door sessions, show the committee has spent 16 hours and 58 minutes working behind closed doors from the committee’s formation on April 23 until Oct. 10.

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That’s just two minutes shy of time spent working on the bid in public.

Farkas said he compiled information tallied by city clerks and shared the details with Postmedia.

On Monday, Farkas is filing a notice of motion which could see a number of drastic changes made to council’s in camera procedures.

If approved, some of those changes would include recording closed-door meetings “so that they can be later reviewed” and requiring a paper record of each confidential agenda item.

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It would also and establish a “sunset clause,” lifting confidentiality after an in camera matter is resolved “or after a certain period of time.”