The Bryceville Township High School Board of Education voted Oct. 20 to retire into executive session to discuss potential litigation, employee personnel matters, collective bargaining and matters involving individual students.

The special meeting was called to order at 5:53 p.m. and, after a roll call establishing a quorum, a motion was made and seconded to go into executive session for: litigation under 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(11); employment, discipline, performance or dismissal of specific employees or contractors; collective negotiating matters or deliberations concerning salary schedules; and matters related to individual students under 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(10). The board then held a roll-call vote approving the motion.

Board members present and recorded as voting in favor were Miss Molinaro; Missus Dixon; Mister O'Camphall; Miss Morris; Doctor Fisher; Miss Barberton; and Miss Smith. The transcript records the roll-call responses as affirmative for each member; no nay or abstention was recorded. The motion to retire to executive session therefore passed and the board left the open meeting. The meeting notice and the motion cited statutory exemptions under the Illinois Open Meetings Act to justify closing the session to the public.

No additional details about the litigation, personnel matters, collective bargaining topics, or the student matters were provided on the public record before the board moved into executive session, and no timeline was announced for when the board would return to open session or take public action related to these topics.

The board did not identify the individual who made or seconded the motion on the public record in the transcript excerpt.

The special meeting agenda item and vote were procedural; subsequent public actions, decisions, or minutes that summarize the executive session’s outcomes — if any — were not included in the available transcript.