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Oswego Board of Trustees votes to enter closed session on litigation, personnel and property matters
Summary
The Oswego Board of Trustees voted unanimously to go into closed session to discuss pending and probable litigation, personnel matters, collective bargaining, salary schedules and potential property transactions after a public forum with no speakers.
The Oswego Board of Trustees voted unanimously to enter a closed session on not specified to discuss pending and probable litigation, appointment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of personnel, collective bargaining and salary schedules, and the sale, lease or acquisition of property after a public forum that drew no speakers.
President Kauffman asked for the motion, saying, "So I do need a motion to move into closed session, please." A motion and a second were recorded on the meeting audio; the mover and seconder were not named in the transcript. The board then took a roll-call vote; trustees who were recorded as voting "yes" included Trustee Hughes, Trustee McCarthy Lang, Trustee Novy, Trustee Torres, Trustee Koenig and Trustee Cooper. The roll call indicated all present voted to enter closed session.
The trustees said they would meet in the Development Services Conference Room. When the board reconvened in open session, President Kauffman called roll again and the meeting proceeded to adjourn the Committee of the Whole and take a short break before the regular board meeting.
The closed-session topics listed by the board are matters typically exempt from public meeting requirements because they concern litigation strategy, confidential personnel matters, collective bargaining strategy and property negotiations. The meeting transcript does not record any substantive discussion from the closed session, nor does it name who moved or seconded the motion to go into closed session.
No members of the public addressed the board during the public forum prior to the closed session; the chair opened the forum, observed "Seeing nobody, we will close the public forum and, move on to closed session," and the board proceeded immediately to the closed session vote.
The board did not announce any outcomes from the closed session on the public record at the time of reconvening beyond returning to open session and adjourning the Committee of the Whole meeting for a short break.
