Francis Howell R-III directors vote to enter closed session to discuss personnel

At a meeting of the Francis Howell R-III Board of Education on a date not specified, directors voted 4-0 to enter a closed session to discuss personnel matters under Section 610.021(3) of the Revised Statutes of Missouri (RSMo).

The motion to move into closed session was made during the open meeting; the transcript records the motion and a second but does not clearly identify who moved or seconded. The board then took a roll-call vote: Director Ponder, Director Owens, Director Blair and Vice President Cook each recorded “Aye.”

Section 610.021(3), RSMo, authorizes a public governmental body to hold a closed meeting to discuss hiring, firing, disciplining or promoting individual employees. The board’s action sent the meeting into closed session for personnel discussion; no public details of personnel matters were disclosed in the open transcript.

Director Ponder, Director Owens, Director Blair and Vice President Cook are recorded as voting in favor. The transcript does not record any votes against, abstentions or recusals. The meeting record provided does not specify the meeting date, the name of the member who moved or seconded the motion, or any substantive discussion that occurred in closed session.

After the roll call, the board proceeded into closed session as recorded in the transcript. No further public actions or subsequent public meeting outcomes were recorded in the supplied transcript.