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Select Board votes to enter executive session on fire-union bargaining and nonunion personnel, does not return to open session
Summary
The Select Board voted by roll call to enter executive session to discuss collective bargaining with the fire union and a separate strategy session on nonunion personnel; the board announced it would not resume open session and adjourned in executive session.
The Select Board voted by roll call at its March 30 meeting to enter executive session under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 30A. The first motion invoked Section 21(a)(3) to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining with the fire union; the second invoked Section 21(a)(2) to conduct a strategy session in preparation for negotiations with nonunion personnel. Both motions passed on roll-call votes recorded in the minutes: Richard Dalton yes; Alexis Leahy yes; Philip Crawford yes.
Chair Philip Crawford announced the board did not intend to resume open session. The meeting record indicates the board entered executive session at 6:28 p.m. and adjourned at 7:04 p.m. No substantive details of bargaining positions, personnel matters or outcomes were disclosed in the open record, consistent with the statutory exemptions cited.
The motions cite MGL Chapter 30A, Section 21(a)(3) (collective bargaining) and Section 21(a)(2) (strategy with respect to negotiations with nonunion personnel). The board's use of executive session means further details, if any, would be recorded in executive-session minutes or later public disclosures as permitted by law.
