Proviso Township HSD 209 board votes to enter closed session on litigation, personnel, labor and student matters

At 6:56 p.m., members of the Proviso Township High School District 209 board voted unanimously to retire into executive session to discuss matters including pending or probable litigation, personnel matters, collective bargaining and individual student matters, citing sections of the Illinois Open Meetings Act (5 ILCS 120/2(c)(11), (c)(1), (c)(2) and (c)(10)).

The motion to go into executive session was made and seconded during the meeting's opening proceedings after roll call. The board recorded a roll-call vote in which the following members were recorded as voting aye: Miss Molinaro; Miss Hateson; Mr. Ocampo; Miss Morris; Dr. Fisher; Miss Barbara Hahn; and Miss Smith (attending virtually). The meeting record shows the board then moved into closed session at 6:56 p.m.

The purposes cited for the executive session mirror the statutory exceptions listed by the board during the motion: (c)(11) for litigation involving the public body; (c)(1) for employee and personnel matters; (c)(2) for collective bargaining and salary schedule deliberations; and (c)(10) for matters concerning individual students. The meeting transcript records the board reading those statutory references when asking for the motion; the transcript does not specify additional details about the subjects to be discussed, nor does it identify who made or seconded the motion by name.

The meeting materials and transcript note that Miss Smith participated virtually and that members were asked to speak into the microphone so virtual participants could hear. No substantive discussion of the items identified for closed session appears in the public portion of the transcript provided.

The board proceeded into the closed executive session immediately after the roll-call vote; no votes on the underlying subjects were recorded in the public minutes included with this transcript.