LaSalle County officials approved discretionary leave for a sheriff’s jail position and voted to enter an executive session to discuss collective bargaining and salary schedules.

Unidentified Speaker asked for a motion to approve “discretionary leave for [a] sheriff jail position.” Mike James (role not specified) offered the motion; members responded “Aye,” and the chair declared, “Motion passes.” The transcript records the motion’s approval but does not record a full roll-call tally or a second for the motion.

Immediately afterward, an Unidentified Speaker asked for a motion to go into executive session under 5 ILCS 120/2(c), citing “collective bargaining matters between the public body and its employees or their representatives, or deliberation concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees.” The speaker named members in turn (Doug, Mike, James, Gaffey) during a roll call. Gaffey verbally responded “Aye,” and the chair said the motion passes. The board then proceeded into executive session; no substantive discussion from that closed session appears in the public transcript.

The actions taken affect personnel administration and preserve confidentiality for negotiations or salary deliberations under the cited Illinois statute. The public record provided here lists the motions and their outcomes but does not include details of any bargaining positions, salary figures, or follow-up public actions.

No additional documentation, vote tallies, amendments, or implementation dates were recorded in the public transcript. The meeting moved into executive session after these votes; the record does not include subsequent public actions or next publicly scheduled steps.