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Residents cite open-meeting concerns and ask the board for transparency on personnel action
Summary
Speakers at the Royalton Select Board meeting said the public has only heard rumors about a personnel action and urged clearer disclosure, arguing the use of executive session should be limited to appropriate legal purposes under open-meeting laws.
Multiple commenters told the board they were frustrated by what they described as "rumor" and a lack of transparency surrounding the administrative leave of a long-serving road employee. Ray Ochowski argued that, "part of the whole move towards open meeting laws and open meetings is that if these issues were out there, perhaps we should have been in a general meeting and then going to executive session."
Speakers asked the board to explain whether proper procedures were followed and to make clear which aspects of the matter required private discussion. Residents emphasized that the public deserves a clearer explanation of the town's process and how executive session was being used in this case; no statutory citation beyond the general reference to "open meeting laws" was given in the public portion of the transcript.
