Sayreville Board of Education votes to go into executive session citing personnel and attorney–client matters

The Sayreville Board of Education voted to enter an executive session at its Oct. 15 meeting to discuss personnel matters and topics falling under attorney–client privilege, citing Section 8 of the Open Public Meetings Act (Public Law 1975, chapter 231). The motion to go into executive session was moved and seconded and the board recorded affirmative votes from board members Fernandez, Napolitano, Pabon, Pylock, Smith, Walsh and Bloom.

The board opened the meeting by announcing that notice of the meeting had been sent to the Home News Tribune and the Star-Ledger, that copies were provided to the borough clerk, and that the meeting notice was posted on the bulletin board outside the office of the secretary of the board. The body led the Pledge of Allegiance and then proceeded to roll call before taking the executive-session vote.

The resolution read into the record cited the Open Public Meetings Act and stated that the public would be excluded from discussion and action on the specified subject matters. The resolution said, in part, that it was anticipated the matters would be made public when the need for nondisclosure no longer exists and that the resolution took effect immediately.

The available transcript does not identify who made the motion or who seconded it by full name. The transcript records the affirmative roll-call responses above but does not include a public discussion of the underlying personnel or legal matters before the board moved to executive session. No final public actions on those topics were recorded in the provided transcript.

The meeting then recessed into executive session; the transcript ends before any additional public proceedings were recorded.