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School committee votes to enter executive session for collective bargaining and personnel matters
Summary
The Easton School Committee voted in a roll‑call to enter executive session to discuss collective bargaining strategy and complaints against public employees; members recorded several "yes" votes in roll call.
The Easton School Committee voted to enter executive session at the close of its May 8 meeting to conduct collective bargaining strategy for multiple bargaining units and to discuss complaints involving public employees.
The chair moved the motion citing Massachusetts General Law Chapter 30A, Section 21(a)(2) (collective bargaining strategy) and 21(a)(1) (to discuss complaints or charges against an individual). The motion was seconded and a roll‑call vote was taken. The roll call in the public transcript recorded the following votes: Hamilton — yes; Loomis — yes; Purslow — yes; Pablo — yes; Wiseman — yes. The meeting minutes indicate the committee then left the public session for executive session and did not return to open session that night.
The committee stated that conducting strategy and personnel discussions in open session would be detrimental to their bargaining and investigatory positions, which is the stated legal basis for the executive session under state law.
