Personnel Committee moves into closed executive session over personnel matters

An official presiding over the Newark City Council Personnel Committee called the meeting to order at 05:45 and said the committee’s sole agenda item was an executive session to discuss personnel matters. "The only thing on our agenda is an executive session, so I would ask that somebody move to go into executive session to discuss personnel matters," the presiding official said.

Council member Laputis moved to enter the closed session; a second was recorded and clarified as coming from Mister Schute. A roll-call vote followed. The presiding official called the roll and recorded unanimous 'yes' votes: Mister Schute, Mister Labuda, Mister Koss, Mister Ryan and the presiding official who stated, "And I am a yes." The motion to move into executive session therefore passed.

Before the room cleared, the presiding official named the officials who would remain for the closed meeting: "all counsel, the law director, and our attorney who will be zooming in online, and then the mayor, assistant law director, Zimmerman, the service director, the auditor, and the HR director." Attendees were instructed to clear the room so the Personnel Committee could continue in private session to discuss personnel matters.

The public record in the transcript ends with the committee moving to executive session; no substantive public discussion of personnel matters or other agenda items was recorded in the available transcript.