Darien School District Board of Education adjourns to executive session on personnel and litigation matters

The Darien School District Board of Education convened a special meeting and moved into executive session to discuss personnel matters and attorney-client privileged communications related to litigation, an unidentified speaker said.

The meeting record shows the speaker asking for a motion "to adjourn to executive session for discussion of personnel matters pursuant to Connecticut general statute 1 dash 2 0 0 6 a and discussion considering attorney client privilege communication regarding litigation pursuant to Connecticut general statute 1 1 dash 2 0 0 6 e and 1 dash 2 1 0 b 10." The transcript preserves the board's exact wording for the statutes cited.

Why it matters: Executive sessions permit the board to discuss personnel and privileged legal matters outside the public meeting; such sessions are governed by state law and remove deliberations from the public record for the duration allowed by statute.

A speaker then said, "I have a motion. Sarah and then Joanna." The audio record indicates the chair or presiding speaker announced, "We're now in executive session," and followed with calls for assent, "All in favor." The public portion of the meeting ends at that point and no public vote tally or named mover/second were recorded in the transcript.

What the transcript records and what it does not: The board cited state statutes when making the motion; the exact statutory citations are included verbatim in the transcript excerpt above. The transcript does not identify the name or title of the person who made the motion, does not record who seconded it, and does not provide a roll-call vote or numerical tally. There is no further public discussion or decision recorded in the provided segment.

Next steps: The meeting proceeded into executive session; the transcript does not record subsequent public actions or when the board reconvened in public.