Governing board votes to enter executive session on professional competence and imminent litigation

The governing board (name not specified in the transcript) voted to enter an executive session to discuss “the character of professional competence” and a pending, reasonably imminent litigation matter, Member Boggess said when she asked for the motion.

Member Boggess sought the motion, saying, "If we could, I'd seek a motion that the board go into executive session for the purpose of discussing the character of professional competence and pending a reasonably imminent litigation." A motion and a second were made and the board conducted a roll-call vote. The roll call recorded 13 members voting yes and one member absent from the chamber.

Roll-call responses recorded on the transcript list Member Kelly, Member Reel, Member Lear, Member Carrie, Vice chair Hart, Member Hall, Member Green, Member Earl, Member Davis, Member Brenton, Member Booth, Member Bollinger and Member Boggess as voting yes. Vice chair Wood was noted as "in the hall" and did not register a vote during the roll call.

The meeting record shows the board began by noting unfinished business from the previous day and that one of two unfinished items had been left in executive session; the board moved to address that outstanding executive-session item first. The transcript does not include any further details about the substance of the professional-competence matter or the litigation beyond the motion's stated purposes.

After the vote, the chair thanked members and the meeting prepared to proceed into the executive session; no public discussion of the topics named in the motion appears in the transcript.