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Committee hears bill to allow executive sessions for public-employee performance reviews
Summary
House Bill 481 would add performance reviews to the limited reasons a public body may enter executive session, sponsors say, while preserving public record access; members pressed sponsors on safeguards and whether the change covers positive as well as adverse evaluations.
Chair Hall convened the Ohio House Government Oversight Committee on May 20 and called House Bill 481 for its first hearing. Representatives Fowler Arthur and Piccolantonio jointly sponsored the bill, which would add a sentence to Ohio’s open-meetings law to explicitly permit a public body to discuss a public employee’s performance evaluation in executive session.
Proponents told the committee the change would allow boards to give frank, constructive feedback in private while keeping any consequent board actions public. Representative Fowler Arthur said the amendment "maintains transparency by keeping the scope of executive sessions narrow and requiring boards to clearly cite…
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