Suffern Central School District board moves into executive session to review personnel matters

The Suffern Central School District Board of Education convened on Jan. 7, 2025, and voted to enter an executive session to review personnel matters, the board chair said. The chair asked for a motion; Mr. Donnelly moved and Mr. Shapiro seconded. The chair then called for all in favor to say "I" and announced the board would resume at approximately 7:30 p.m.

"Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the regular meeting of the Suffern Central School District Board of Education for Tuesday, 01/07/2025," the chair said, adding, "May the record reflect that all board members are present except for Dr. Nick Pahn and Mrs. Hodge." The chair also noted that Mrs. Hodge and Dr. Gunderson were expected to join shortly.

The chair introduced a motion to move into executive session "for the purposes of ... reviewing with the superintendent of schools and the assistant superintendent for human resources employment history" of one or more employees, as the transcript records. The transcript includes numeric references that are garbled and unclear; the meeting record available here does not specify public employee identifiers or further public details of the personnel matters discussed.

After the motion was moved and seconded, the chair asked for objections and abstentions and then stated, "We will go into executive session and we will resume here at approximately 07:30." No roll-call vote or recorded tally appeared in the public portion of the transcript; the chair indicated the meeting would recess to the closed session.

Because the discussion moved into a closed executive session, no further personnel deliberations are available in the public record. The board's next public action, according to the chair, was to resume the meeting at about 7:30 p.m.