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Board refers renaming request and retires to closed session under Wisconsin law
Summary
The board referred a building-renaming request from the Milwaukee German Immersion School Foundation to administration and then voted to retire to closed session under Wisconsin Statute 19.85 to consult counsel and consider performance evaluations.
The Milwaukee Board of School Directors referred a communication from the Milwaukee German Immersion School Foundation requesting a building be renamed to the administration for follow-up.
Later in the meeting the board moved, on Director Ferguson's motion (seconded by Director Jackson), to retire to closed session under Wisconsin Statute 19.85(1)(c) and (1)(g) to confer with legal counsel regarding litigation strategy and to consider performance evaluations of named officers. The roll call vote was six in favor; the board adjourned to closed session and noted it might return to open session only to take action on matters discussed in closed session.
The motion and statute citation were read into the record; the transcript records the board's action to move into closed session at the close of the public agenda.
