Proviso Township High School District 209 board retires to closed executive session on Sept. 30

Proviso Township High School District 209's Board of Education voted Sept. 30 to retire into a closed executive session to discuss litigation, personnel, collective bargaining and student matters under the Illinois Open Meetings Act.

The motion to enter executive session was made and seconded; a roll call followed and the meeting record indicates the board was in executive session at about 5:40 p.m. The transcript shows a board member moved to retire to executive session, another seconded, and then the chair called for the roll. The record includes a response by Miss Maladaram and a response from Mrs. Dixon recorded in the transcript as “Abstinent. No.” The transcript then notes, “We are in executive closed session at 05:40PM.”

Board members cited statutory authority for the closed meeting in the record, referencing 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(11), (c)(1), (c)(2) and (c)(10) of the Illinois Open Meetings Act. Those subsections are the statutory bases commonly used to authorize closed sessions for pending or probable litigation affecting a public body, personnel matters concerning specific employees, collective bargaining matters and student disciplinary cases, respectively.

The publicly provided transcript does not identify who moved or seconded the motion by name, and the roll-call responses in the excerpt are not fully clear from the recording. The transcript also records that David Campbell arrived as the board entered executive session.

No further public actions or votes on substantive items are included in the provided excerpt of the meeting. The board's discussion and any decisions made during the executive session are not part of the public transcript excerpt provided here.