Oswego trustees vote to enter closed session on litigation, personnel and property matters

The Village of Oswego Board of Trustees voted to move into a closed session at its meeting to discuss pending and probable litigation, appointment and dismissal of personnel, collective bargaining and deliberations about salary schedules, and the sale, lease or acquisition of property, the board recorded.

The board opened a public forum at the start of the meeting but closed it immediately after no members of the public came forward. A motion to convene the closed session said the meeting would be held “for the purposes of pending and probable litigation, appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of personnel, collective bargaining, collective negotiating matters, deliberations concerning salary schedules, or the sale lease and or acquisition of property.” The motion was seconded and put to a roll-call vote.

Roll call votes in support of moving into closed session were recorded as: Trustee Torres — yes; Trustee McCarthy Lang — yes; Trustee Novy — yes; Trustee Cooper — yes. Trustees Hughes and Koenig were absent at the time of the vote. The motion carried, and the board moved into closed session. The meeting later returned to open session and then adjourned the committee of the whole to proceed to the board meeting.

No public comments were made during the forum, and no ordinance, resolution or other formal legislative action was presented or decided in the open record beyond the vote to enter closed session. The transcript does not identify who moved or who seconded the motion by name.