Board holds closed session to discuss personnel allegations; no official action taken

The Murray County Board entered a closed session to discuss preliminary allegations against an employee and later announced it would take no official action, according to remarks recorded in the meeting transcript.

The meeting opened with a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. The Chair then announced that the board would move into a closed session “pursuant to the law I have cited” and specifically cited a Minnesota statute: “Minnesota statutes section 13 d 0.05, subs subdivision 2 b,” before stating the purpose as “preliminary discussions regarding allegations and against an employee.”

A board member moved to enter closed session and a second was stated. The Chair called for a vote and declared the motion carried; the transcript records at least one affirmative response. After the closed session, a motion to come out of closed session was moved and seconded, the Chair again called for the vote, and the motion to end the closed session was carried.

Following the closed session, the Chair stated, “The board at this time is gonna take no official action related to closed session,” indicating that no formal personnel action or public decision resulted from the nonpublic discussion. The meeting was then adjourned.

The transcript does not record the content of the closed session itself or identify the employee involved; it contains only the board’s procedural steps, the cited statute, the stated subject matter (allegations against an employee), and the Chair’s announcement that no official action was being taken at that time.