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Personnel committee votes to close portions of meeting to discuss hiring and discipline
Summary
The St. Louis City Board of Aldermen’s Personnel and Administration Committee voted 3-0 to close portions of its meeting to discuss personnel matters under a statutory personnel exception and then adjourned; the transcript does not record a meeting date or the identities of the motion mover and seconder.
At a brief meeting, the St. Louis City Board of Aldermen’s Personnel and Administration Committee voted 3-0 to close portions of the session so members could discuss personnel matters, then adjourned.
An unidentified committee member (spoken as Speaker S2 in the transcript) proposed "a motion that portions of this meeting of the Board of Alderman's Personnel Administration Committee be closed to the public under provisions of 610.0213 in accordance to permit the members of the committee to discuss matters related to the hiring, firing, discipline, or promoting of employees of the Board of aldermen." The motion was moved and seconded; the transcript does not specify who moved or who seconded.
Madam Clerk called the roll for the closure vote. Alderman Cone voted "Aye." The clerk named Alderman Clark Hubbard during roll call (no vote line is recorded for that name in the transcript). The clerk recorded an "Aye" for a speaker whose name was spoken as "Alderman Aldrich" during roll call; earlier in the transcript that same participant was first referenced as "Alderman Aldridge." President Green voted "Aye." The clerk announced three aye votes and that the motion carried. The committee then instructed STLTV to place the meeting in closed session and shortly afterward resumed recording and moved to adjourn.
The transcript does not record the date of the meeting or the names of the individuals who formally moved and seconded the motion. The committee did not state details of the personnel matters on the public record; the stated justification for closing the session was to discuss hiring, firing, discipline or promotion of Board of Aldermen employees under the personnel-exception provision referenced in the transcript.
Clarifying detail: the transcript references "610.0213" as the statutory citation. That phrasing appears to be a transcript rendering; the personnel exception commonly cited in Missouri public-meeting law is Section 610.021(3) (personnel matters). The transcript itself provides no further statutory citation or legislative text. The meeting minutes or clerk’s office may have the formal citation and a public record of actions taken after any closed session as required by law.
The committee concluded with an adjournment vote and the chair stated, "We are adjourned."
