Alamance County commissioners move into closed session to consult attorney on school‑funding dispute

The Alamance County Board of Commissioners moved into a closed session on June 19 to consult with legal counsel about a recently received dispute over local school funding, then adjourned without releasing details.

Mr. Carter moved that the board go into closed session "to consult with an attorney employed or retained by the public body in order to preserve the attorney client privilege between the attorney and the public body," citing the statute language read during the meeting that corresponds to North Carolina law authorizing closed sessions for attorney consultation (transcribed in the meeting as "North Carolina statute 1 43 dash 3 18.1113"). The motion said the attorney would advise the board on ongoing legal matters, including a dispute of local school funding that the motion identified as being submitted by the Burlington Board of Education (the transcript reads a closely related phrase).

After the closed session, the board returned to open session and Attorney Stevens told the board there was "nothing to report from the closed session." The meeting ended after a motion to adjourn, a second, and a voice vote in which members said "Aye."

The board did not discuss the substance of the school‑funding dispute in open session, and the meeting transcript contains no further public details about the matter or any formal vote on it. The statutes quoted during the motion are recorded in the transcript in a garbled numeric form; the board cited the state authority for attorney consultation in closed session and referenced a statutory citation relating to school funding as read aloud during the meeting. No additional documents or timelines for public disclosure were provided during the session.

Next steps: the board did not announce any public follow‑up or schedule additional meetings on the record regarding the dispute; Attorney Stevens reported no actions to disclose at the return to open session.