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Milford council advances one candidate after executive session; second candidate’s outcome not clear from transcript
Summary
At a special March 20 meeting, the Milford Council held an executive session and voted to advance one job candidate by a 6-2 recorded tally. A separate motion on a second candidate was made but the transcript does not clearly record a final outcome.
The Milford Council convened a special meeting at 9:31 a.m. Thursday, March 20, opened a brief public-comment window with no speakers, moved into executive session and later returned to open session to consider job candidates.
Council members voted to move forward with candidate 1 after the executive session. A roll-call tally read aloud during the meeting put the vote at 6 in favor and 2 opposed.
The council first opened the meeting and offered a 15-minute public-comment period, telling residents three minutes were allowed per person; no one took the floor. The body then moved into executive session; a motion to enter executive session was seconded and approved after members voiced "Aye," according to the meeting record.
After the executive session, a council member moved to "move forward with candidate 1," and Councilor James seconded that motion. Members cast recorded votes and the chair announced the motion carried 6-2. The meeting transcript records individual votes read aloud at several points during the roll call (for example, a council member announced "yes for Katrina, a no for Madula, a no for Dan, a yes for Mike, a no for Lori," and later the chair or clerk read the final tally), but portions of the readback are fragmented in the available transcript.
A separate motion to move forward with candidate 2 was made later in the meeting and received recorded yes/no responses from members, but the transcript does not clearly capture a final, unambiguous tally or a formal announced outcome for that motion. A speaker in the room said, "I vote no," and another said the council would "work with the Jamesha and the recruiter to next step," indicating the recruiter and staff would continue follow-up regardless of the recorded wording in the transcript.
The recruiter stated that if the council moved a candidate forward, the recruiter would conduct a more in-depth interview and report back to the council for further action. The meeting concluded with a motion to adjourn.
The record included no references to ordinances, statutes or other formal authorities in connection with the hiring discussion; the meeting focused on personnel steps and next-step interviews rather than final hires.
Votes at a glance
- Motion to enter executive session: motion seconded and approved (members voiced "Aye"). - Motion to move forward with candidate 1: carried, recorded tally announced as 6-2 in favor. - Motion to move forward with candidate 2: motion made; final outcome not clearly recorded in the available transcript.
Next steps discussed included the recruiter conducting a deeper interview for any candidate the council chose to advance and reporting results back to the council for further decision-making.
