East Cleveland board votes to enter executive session on superintendent and treasurer contract renewals

The East Cleveland City School District board voted to enter executive session to discuss renewal of the superintendent’s contract and renewal of the treasurer’s contract. Miss Sanders made the motion and Miss Fountain seconded; the board chair announced that the motion passed after the roll-call vote.

The board’s attorney arrived before the vote and advised that the executive session should be split into two separate discussions — one for the superintendent and one for the treasurer — so the motions and votes would be taken separately. The motion recorded on the agenda was for an executive session "procedure of the renewal of the superintendent contract," with a subsequent separate motion planned for the treasurer's contract.

Board members began the meeting with routine items, including approval of the evening’s agenda and consideration of previous meeting minutes, before public comment and the attorney’s arrival. The board chair announced the vote to go into executive session after Miss Sanders moved and Miss Fountain seconded the motion.

The record in the transcript shows named votes during the executive-session motion (Miss Demi Walls and Miss Sanders recorded as voting yes); the chair announced "All votes are in. Motion passes." The transcript does not contain a complete roll-call tally for every board member on that motion in clear text, and the full executive-session discussion and any personnel decisions that may follow will not be public while the board is in closed session.