The San Luis Special Public Safety Personnel Local Retirement Board voted to continue consideration of an accidental disability retirement application for the applicant named in the record and to proceed with an independent medical examination, the board confirmed at a special meeting.

The action followed an executive session called under cited Arizona statutes to review confidential medical matters related to the application. Board members recessed to a conference room for the executive session and later reconvened in public to complete the record and record a voice vote approving continuation of the application and an IME.

Board members first voted to appoint Guadalupe Gutierrez as acting chair for the special meeting after Chairwoman Nieves Rydell was absent. After routine items on the consent agenda were approved by voice vote, the board moved into the executive session that the agenda identified as concerning an accidental disability retirement application received in the transcript record. Leslie Florentzen, the local board attorney, was listed on the agenda as present for legal counsel.

Upon returning to the public meeting, a motion was made and seconded to continue the accidental disability retirement application process for the applicant and to proceed with an independent medical examination. A board member subsequently asked that the vote be put on the record; the moderator called for and announced a voice vote of "Aye," and stated the motion passed.

The record does not include a roll-call vote tally by name for the IME motion; the motion was approved by voice vote as recorded in the meeting minutes. The minutes and agenda text in the meeting also cite Arizona Revised Statutes provisions as the legal basis for holding an executive session to discuss confidential medical records and other statutory authorities listed on the agenda.

After completing business related to the application, the board completed an adjournment vote and closed the special meeting.