The Nantucket School Committee negotiation subcommittee voted Dec. 22 to close its open session and move into executive session to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with the Nantucket teachers association bargaining unit.

Unidentified Speaker, Moderator, made the motion to "close this open session ... to go into executive session" and cited "Massachusetts general law chapter 30 a section 21 a" as the statutory basis for meeting in private to discuss collective-bargaining strategy. The motion was seconded, and the subcommittee approved it with members answering "Aye." The transcript records that the subcommittee did not intend to reconvene an open session after the executive session.

The action followed routine procedural business. The subcommittee first asked for approval of the meeting agenda; a motion to approve was made, seconded and approved with "Aye" responses. After approving the agenda, the group heard and approved the motion to close the open meeting for the stated bargaining-preparation purpose, then adjourned the open session to join the executive session link.

Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 30A, Section 21(a) permits public bodies to meet in executive session to discuss strategy in collective bargaining; the subcommittee expressly cited that provision when making the motion. The transcript identifies the bargaining counterpart as the "Nantucket teachers association bargaining unit." The record does not include further detail about the negotiation positions, proposed contract terms, or any vote counts by individual members.

The subcommittee left the open session and proceeded to the executive session link; the transcript ends as members adjourned to the closed meeting. No further open-session action was recorded.