Board votes to limit executive‑session attendance to current members after public plea to include incoming members
Summary
A public commenter asked the Parma City School District Board to allow incoming elected members to attend an attorney‑present executive session; the board debated but voted to allow only current active board members to participate and then adjourned into executive session for personnel matters.
Public comment at the Parma City School District board meeting raised precedent for allowing incoming board members to attend an attorney‑present executive session. A resident who identified himself as Mister Kuzmo asked the board to "reconsider" the earlier decision and said a 2017 executive session had included incoming members when an attorney was present. He asked that incoming members be offered the same opportunity now.
Board members debated the request. Miss McTaggart said she was making a statement opposing the change to allow incoming members, emphasizing that prior exclusions were due to attorney‑client privilege. The board president said the motion before the body was to allow current active members, not incoming members, to participate with board counsel.
The board moved Resolution 2025‑11‑534 to allow current active board members in executive session with board counsel; the motion passed on roll call (with at least one recorded no vote). Immediately after, the board adopted Resolution 2025‑11‑535 and adjourned into executive session at 6:39 p.m. to consider personnel matters, appointments and investigations. The chair stated explicitly that "no resolution will be voted on during executive session" and that all votes must occur in open session.
The transcript records the public comment alleging prior practice and a recorded objection from at least one sitting member; the board’s final vote limited closed‑session attendance to current active members and proceeded to closed session on personnel.
