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Freetown board meets in executive session on police bargaining; MOA discussion deferred
Summary
The Freetown Board of Selectmen entered executive session to discuss collective bargaining strategy with the Freetown Police Association, then returned and deferred action on the memorandum of agreement to a later time.
The Freetown Board of Selectmen convened an executive session on May 28 to discuss collective bargaining strategy with the Freetown Police Association, citing a Massachusetts statute as the legal basis for a closed session.
The chair announced the executive session would be held under the statute cited in the transcript and asked for a motion to enter executive session; the motion was made, seconded and carried. During the private session the board placed one participant (Eric) temporarily in the Zoom waiting room. The board later returned to open session and resumed its agenda.
When the board resumed open session, the chair introduced agenda item 2 — consideration of a memorandum of agreement (MOA) between the town and the Freetown Police Association covering a multi-year bargaining period. The chair said the board would "pass on that" for now and moved to the next agenda item, leaving the MOA for future consideration.
The transcript records the board’s use of an executive session for collective bargaining discussions and notes that the MOA discussion was deferred; no substantive terms of an agreement were read into the open record and no vote on the MOA was recorded in the open session transcript.
