Teton County commissioners approve agenda, enter executive session on personnel

Teton County commissioners convened a special meeting April 11, approved the meeting agenda and unanimously voted to move into an executive session citing a personnel code, then reconvened and adjourned after concluding business.

The presiding speaker opened the virtual special meeting at about 2:09 p.m. and asked for a motion to approve the agenda; an unidentified participant moved and another seconded. "Move to approve the agenda," an unidentified speaker said; the group voiced agreement and the agenda was approved.

Shortly afterward the presiding speaker made a motion "to enter into executive session for Bridal code 74Dash2061B for Personnel," and a second was recorded. The motion passed on a roll-call vote: Commissioner Whitfield — Aye; Commissioner Wolf — Aye; Commissioner James — Aye. The meeting then paused while participants moved to an executive room; the open-session transcript records no substantive public discussion of policy matters prior to the executive session.

The meeting reconvened at about 4:29 p.m., and a motion to adjourn was made, seconded and approved by voice vote. No further actions, motions or votes on open-agenda items were recorded in the transcript. Because the commission moved into an executive session expressly for personnel matters, details of that portion of the meeting were not disclosed in the public transcript.

The meeting record shows some confusion about the start time: one participant asked, "So you thought we were starting at 2?" and said they had told another attendee 2:15 p.m. The transcript does not identify who moved to approve the agenda or who seconded that motion by name.

No dates, budgets, contracts, ordinances or substantive policy items were discussed in the open portion of the recorded meeting; the only formal actions recorded in the open session were approval of the agenda, the vote to enter executive session for personnel, and the adjournment.