Board votes to enter executive session to discuss litigation over Nantasket Avenue permitting appeal

The Hull Health Planning Board voted July 8 to enter an executive session to discuss litigation strategy in a permitting appeal involving a property on Nantasket Avenue.

Chair Clemen announced the closed session and cited the statutory basis on which the board relied: "…strategy with respect to litigation regarding the permitting appeal for the point, 839843845 Nantasket Avenue," and stated the session was being held pursuant to "general law, chapter 30 a section 21 a 3." Clemen said the board would not reconvene in public at the conclusion of the executive session, partly because the length of an executive session is uncertain and returning later would be unfair to members of the public waiting to participate.

The motion to enter executive session was moved and seconded (the transcript records Peyton as the mover and Sholty as the seconder). The chair called a roll-call vote and recorded unanimous approval. Members then confirmed logistics: the executive session would proceed on a different Zoom link and staff would forward the link to members.

The closed session was described as litigation strategy concerning a permitting appeal; no substantive details about the appeal’s merits or parties were discussed in the public portion of the meeting. The board explicitly declared that reconvening in open session would not occur.

Because the discussion moved into a properly announced executive session on litigation, further public details and deliberations are not available in the meeting transcript.