Board of Education votes to enter closed session to review student disciplinary and personnel matters

An unidentified board member moved that the board of education go into closed session on Dec. 5 to review disciplinary proceedings involving individual students and to consider employment, promotion, compensation, or performance evaluation data for public employees.

"I move that the board of education go into closed session for the purpose of, 1, reviewing disciplinary proceedings and decisions involving individual students pursuant to Wisconsin state statute sections 19.851 a, f, and g, and state statutes 1 18.125 and or 1 20.131 e n 2, and for considering employment, promotion, compensation, or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governance body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility, pursuant to Wisconsin state statute sections 19.851 c," the unidentified speaker said while making the motion.

The motion was seconded. The board then completed a roll call: Board member Vander Meelen voted, "Aye." Vice President Pearson responded, "Aye." Board member Mozart Balco said, "Aye." Board member Balpro said, "Aye." The presiding speaker recorded their own "aye." The chair then announced, "We will go into closed session." The transcript ends with the board moving into closed session.

The board cited Wisconsin state statute provisions (as read into the record) as the legal basis for holding the discussion in private. The transcript does not record any substantive deliberations from the closed session or any public disclosure of decisions reached there.

The board took the procedural step of recessing the public meeting and entering closed session; no additional public actions were recorded in this excerpt.