At its meeting (date not specified), the Grove City Council voted to excuse Mayor Stage from the evening's session and then approved a motion to meet in executive session to consider the appointment of a council member to fill a vacancy.

Ms. Kelly called the roll at the start of the meeting; several council members answered "here." The presiding official said, "I would like to make a motion to excuse Mayor Stage this evening." The motion was seconded by Miss Burrows. Roll-call responses recorded on the audio show Anderson, Alk, Bolt, Gary and Dew answering in the affirmative, and the motion was adopted by those voting members.

Immediately afterward the presiding official moved that the council enter executive session "to consider the appointment of a council member to fill the vacancy per Ohio Revised Code 121.22(G)(1)." The motion was put to a roll-call vote; recorded affirmative responses include Anderson, Houck, Walt, Gary, Du and Perros. The council moved into the closed session under the cited statutory authority for personnel/appointment matters.

The recorded segments end with the council voting to enter executive session; no substantive public action on the appointment appears in the provided transcript excerpt.

The council's action cited Ohio Revised Code 121.22(G)(1), the statutory exception permitting a public body to hold a closed session to consider the appointment of a public employee or official.