Cohoes Board approves consent items and votes to enter executive session on personnel and negotiations

At its April 24 meeting the Cohoes City School District Board of Education moved to adopt a set of resolutions listed on the agenda for that evening and then voted to enter executive session to discuss personnel matters and ongoing negotiations.

Unidentified Speaker 1 asked for a motion that the board "adopt the following resolutions of the 04/24/2024 agenda? 6 a through m, 7 a through l, and 9 a." The motion was moved from the floor; during roll call multiple members responded "Yes," and the chair announced passage of the consent items.

Later the board moved to enter executive session "to discuss matters leading to the appointment, employment, promotion, demotion, discipline, suspension, removal of a person or corporation, and to discuss the negotiation with the speakers," as read by Unidentified Speaker 1. The motion was seconded by Unidentified Speaker 2 and approved by roll call votes. Board members recorded as voting in the affirmative on the executive-session motion included Jones, Mister Jackson, Missus Steiner, Missus Gendron, Meredith and Missus Sherry; the chair said the board did not expect to reconvene the public meeting that night.

The recorded roll-call votes for the consent motion listed members who answered "Yes," including Missus Giller, Jackson, Missus Snyder, Missus Bindran, Harris and Mrs. Carey. The transcript does not provide additional detail about the contents of the adopted resolutions beyond their agenda references.

Because the matters slated for executive session were described as personnel and negotiations, the board did not discuss those items in public before adjourning the regular portion of the meeting.