Pataskala City ad hoc committee enters executive session to discuss finance director search and compensation

The Pataskala City ad hoc committee voted to enter an executive session at 05:53 to discuss compensation of a public employee and to continue the search for a new finance director.

The motion, described in the meeting as an executive-session item "pursuant [to] compensation of a public employee," also named Assistant City Administrator Chris Schirach as an invitee to that session. The motion was made and seconded; the transcript does not record who moved or seconded.

Roll call at the meeting showed the following members present: Walter; Hamtire; Dealers; David; and Dickens. A roll-call vote on the motion recorded each of those members voting yes; the motion carried and the committee entered executive session at 05:53. Jess conducted the roll call earlier in the meeting. A committee member asked staff to "make sure everything shut off" before the break.

The committee opened the public portion of the meeting by reciting the pledge of allegiance and identified the gathering's purpose as continuing the search for a new finance director. The transcript contains no further public discussion or disclosure of the topics addressed inside the executive session.

No formal decisions about hiring or final compensation were recorded in the public portion of the meeting; the only formal public action was the vote to enter the executive session to discuss compensation and the finance director search.