School committee votes to enter executive session on real property; approves remote participation

The school committee approved a motion to permit remote participation and then voted to move into an executive session to discuss the purchase, exchange, lease or valuation of real property, the Chair said.

The Chair opened the meeting and asked for a motion “to adopt remote participation as written in the agenda.” A member moved and another seconded; a roll call followed and the motion was carried, according to the record. The transcript captures affirmative responses during the roll call but does not clearly record each member’s individual vote.

After that vote, the Chair moved that the body enter executive session and not return to open session, naming school committee members Kevin, Julia, Michelle and Heidi as participants in the executive session. The Chair invoked the statutory exception permitting closed sessions “to consider the purchase, exchange, lease or value of real property if the chair declares that an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the negotiation position of the public body,” and declared that condition met.

A second roll call was taken and the motion to enter executive session carried. The provided transcript ends with that roll call; the minutes or any actions taken inside the executive session were not included in the record provided.

The meeting then proceeded into executive session; no subsequent public discussion or formal outcomes from the closed session are recorded in the supplied transcript.