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Cleves Village Council excuses member, votes 4-0 to enter executive session under ORC 121.22(G)
Summary
The Cleves Village Council voted to excuse Councilmember Burns from the meeting and then voted 4-0 to go into executive session citing ORC 121.22(G)(3) and (G)(4), which relate to attorney conferences and employee negotiations.
The Cleves Village Council voted to excuse Councilmember Burns from the evening’s meeting and then moved into an executive session, the presiding officer said.
The presiding officer (name not specified) asked that a motion be made to excuse Burns after noting a resignation that reduced attendance. Councilmember Meister moved to excuse Burns; Councilmember Bolton seconded. A roll-call vote of the four members present — Miss Meyer, Miss Meister, Mister Bable and Miss Bolton — approved the motion. The presiding officer then read statutory language from ORC 121.22(G) describing allowable executive-session topics and asked for a motion to convene an executive session for attorney conferences and for negotiations with public employees. Mister Bable moved to go into executive session; Miss Meyer seconded. The council approved that motion by roll call, 4-0, and the meeting went into executive session.
The presiding officer read the stated purpose for the executive session aloud, citing ORC 121.22(G)(3) for conferences with an attorney concerning pending or imminent court action and ORC 121.22(G)(4) for preparing, conducting or reviewing negotiations with public employees about compensation or other terms and conditions of employment. The presiding officer told the public the body might return to regular session and may or may not take action following the executive session.
Procedural details recorded in the meeting included an initial announcement that five members were present and a later noting of a resignation that left four members in attendance, which the presiding officer confirmed still constituted a quorum. A clerk identified as Penny was asked to record Burns’s requested absence in the minutes. At the close of the roll call on the executive-session motion the presiding officer said, “Motion passes 4-0,” before the meeting moved to the closed session.
No additional substantive policy discussion or votes were recorded in the public portion of the transcript provided.
