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Columbia council votes to enter closed session to discuss personnel matters
Summary
At the March 17 pre-council meeting the City of Columbia moved and seconded a motion to go into closed session to discuss personnel matters under Missouri open-meetings law; the motion passed on a roll-call vote.
The City of Columbia City Council on March 17 voted to enter a closed meeting to discuss personnel matters, citing Missouri’s open-meetings statute allowing closed deliberations on certain personnel records and evaluations.
A motion was made at the close of the pre-council session to “immediately go into a closed meeting here in Conference Room 1A/1B of City Hall to discuss the hiring, firing, disciplining, or promoting of particular employees by a public governmental body” under the exemptions to Missouri’s Sunshine Law. The motion cited Section 610.021 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri (RSMo), specifically subsections (3) and (13), which cover personnel records and individually identifiable personnel information. The mover was not specified on the record; the motion was seconded by a councilmember identified as Don.
The council conducted a roll-call vote. Councilmembers Buffalo, Carroll, Meyer, Lovelady, Foster, Waterman and Peters voted “yes.” No “no” votes or abstentions were recorded in the transcript. The clerk moved to close the public meeting and proceed to the closed session.
The transcript does not record discussion contents from the closed session or any subsequent action taken in public after the meeting returned from closed session.
