Board chair moves Stamford School District board into executive session to review legal opinions on personnel assignments

The chair called the Stamford Board of Education's emergency meeting to order at 7:02 a.m. and said the first agenda item was "discussion of legal opinions pertaining to personnel assignments." The chair said the district attorney, identified in the meeting as "Mr. Booney," had arrived and would present an opinion in executive session.

The chair moved that the board go into executive session to hear the attorney's opinion. "I will move that, we go into executive session," the chair said. The chair noted a second from "Miss Coke." When the chair called for a vote, the chair stated there were no opposed votes and "no abstentions," and then announced, "We will go into executive session." The transcript does not record a roll-call tally; the chair's statements are the only vote-related record in the public portion.

Before recessing, the chair asked, "What is this position?" and stated that there would be no votes taken in executive session and that the board would likely adjourn after the executive session. No formal actions on personnel assignments were recorded in the public portion of the meeting.

The board moved into executive session to receive legal advice and to discuss personnel matters; the transcript indicates the attorney present would provide a legal opinion to the board in that closed session. No further public debate, motions on personnel, or vote totals were recorded in the provided transcript.