Mt. Diablo Unified School District board adjourns into closed session to discuss negotiations, personnel and litigation

The Mt. Diablo Unified School District board on April 22 adjourned into closed session to discuss contract negotiations, potential personnel discipline or reassignment, and anticipated litigation, the meeting chair announced.

The chair said the board would consider negotiations under Government Code section 54957.6; possible discipline, dismissal, release or reassignment of a public employee under Government Code section 54957(b)(1); and two anticipated litigation matters under Government Code section 54956.9(d)(2). The board then moved into closed session.

During the regular meeting’s roll call Trustees McDougall, Lawrence, Mayo, Zaehwy and Mason were recorded as present. The chair solicited public comment; the transcript records no public speakers after that solicitation.

The transcript does not record any motions, votes or deliberations on the substantive items announced for closed session. The board’s adjournment to closed session was recorded as the final public action in the transcript; no outcomes or further decisions were listed in the public portion of the meeting record.

Because California law generally restricts public disclosure of discussions held in properly noticed closed sessions, the board did not provide further details in the public portion of the meeting about the negotiations, personnel matter or the anticipated litigation. Any formal actions resulting from the closed session would be reflected in later public minutes or a subsequent meeting agenda, the transcript indicates.