The Mount Vernon City School District Board of Education held a brief special emergency meeting Aug. 13 and voted to enter executive session to discuss pending litigation, the district’s financial history and personnel matters and to receive legal advice. A board member moved and another seconded the motion, which the board approved by voice vote.

The board achieved a quorum during roll call. President Maribel, Vice President Mitchell and Trustees White, Scott, Peterson, Middleton, McDonough, Kelly and Brown all answered “Present” during the roll call.

A meeting facilitator asked for a motion “to enter into executive session for the purpose of discussing pending litigation, the financial history, a particular person, corporation, or matters leading to the appointment, employment, demotion, discipline, suspension, dismissal, a removal of a particular person or corporation, and to receive legal advice on a pending matter?” The motion was made and seconded; after a voice vote, the facilitator said, “Motion carries.”

Before adjourning the public portion, the facilitator told the public, “We will now move into executive session. Just just for the public, we will not be returning to this room.” No further public discussion or votes on other agenda items were recorded in the meeting transcript.

The action moved the board into a closed session. The transcript does not specify which litigation, which individual or corporation is involved, the nature of the financial-history discussion, who made the motion, who seconded it, or the detailed vote tally; those details were not stated aloud in the public portion of the meeting.