Proviso Twp HSD 209 board votes to return to executive session on litigation, personnel and negotiations
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Summary
The Proviso Township High School District 209 board voted to return to executive session after the chair cited Illinois Open Meetings Act exemptions covering litigation, personnel/employee matters, collective bargaining and student-related deliberations; the motion was seconded and the chair announced it carried.
At 5:35 p.m., the Proviso Township High School District 209 board moved to return to executive session, with the chair reciting statutory exemptions that would permit private deliberations on litigation, personnel matters, collective bargaining and student-related issues.
The chair asked for "a motion to return to executive session for the purposes of a litigation when an action against, affecting, or on behalf of particular public bodies pending, probable, or imminent by ILCS ... the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees ... collective negotiating ... deliberations of certain salary schedules ... and manager related to individual students," and similar language as recorded on the meeting transcript. A board member moved the motion and another seconded it; the mover and seconder were not named in the provided segments.
The chair then called the roll. The transcript records the following responses as part of the roll call on the motion: Miss Molinaro — "Aye"; Mister Campbell — "Absent"; Miss Morris — "Absent"; Doctor Pritchard — "Aye"; a speaker identified in the roll as "Miss Barbourton" — "Aye"; and Miss Smith — "Aye". One name queried earlier in the roll, "Missus Capesano," did not have a recorded response in the supplied segments. After the roll call the chair stated, "Motion carried."
The board’s stated reasons for moving to executive session referenced exemptions under the Illinois Open Meetings Act (statutory citations read on the record) that commonly allow closed deliberations on pending or probable litigation, personnel and employment matters, collective bargaining and certain student-related issues. The transcript does not record any public discussion of the underlying matters that will be discussed in executive session; no substantive decisions on those topics were taken in open session according to the provided segments.
According to the meeting record segments available, the board proceeded directly to the executive session after the chair announced the motion carried. The transcript does not specify the length of the closed session or the substantive outcomes reached while in executive session.
