Toll Highway Authority approves minutes, finance and engineering items; enters executive session

The Toll Highway Authority board approved the minutes of its Feb. 20, 2025, meeting, a finance item and multiple engineering items, and voted to enter an executive session citing exceptions in the Open Meetings Act.

The approvals were routine but included a recorded roll-call vote on engineering item 1 and a later executive-session vote to consider matters related to safety and pending litigation. The board consolidated and approved engineering items 2 through 4 by voice vote and later approved a chair’s item after returning from executive session.

Board members first moved to approve the minutes of the regular board meeting held Feb. 20, 2025. The motion was moved and seconded and passed on a voice vote.

Finance item 1 was considered next; the motion to approve was moved and seconded and passed on a voice vote.

Engineering item 1 was taken separately because Director Neddermeyer indicated in advance she would recuse herself. The motion to approve engineering item 1 was carried by roll call. The transcript records affirmative responses from multiple directors and records the outcome as “8 yays, 0 nays, and 1 with 2 phones.” The board then moved to consolidate engineering items 2 through 4 for consideration and approved the consolidated motion by voice vote.

Later in the meeting the board voted to enter an executive session under the exceptions cited from the Open Meetings Act — specifically sections addressing safety, pending or probable litigation, and closed-session minutes — and the motion passed on a voice vote. After the executive session the board returned and approved chair’s item 2; that motion was moved and seconded and passed on a voice vote.

Votes at a glance - Approval of minutes (regular board meeting, 02/20/2025): motion moved and seconded; voice vote; outcome: approved. - Finance item 1: motion moved and seconded; voice vote; outcome: approved. - Engineering item 1: taken separately due to a recusal; roll-call vote recorded; outcome: approved (transcript: “8 yays, 0 nays, and 1 with 2 phones”). - Engineering items 2–4: motion to consolidate and approve; voice votes; outcome: approved. - Motion to enter executive session (Open Meetings Act, sections 2(c)(8), 2(c)(11), 2(c)(21)): motion moved and seconded; voice vote; outcome: approved. - Chair’s item 2: deferred until after executive session; motion to approve moved and seconded after session; voice vote; outcome: approved.

The board did not provide further detail in open session on the subjects discussed in executive session. The transcript records the statutory citations used to justify the closed session but does not record deliberations or outcomes from that closed portion in open session except for the later approval of the deferred chair’s item.