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Resident objects to executive session; board defends personnel confidentiality
Summary
A resident told the Acton selectmen they should not enter executive session without fuller disclosure; the Board maintained the matter involved a current employee and that personnel confidentiality justified a closed session.
During the Nov. 15 special meeting, resident Bernard Broader III objected publicly when the Board moved to go into executive session to discuss a personnel matter, saying the public had been given insufficient disclosure and citing Title 1 M.R.S.A. §405. "He believed this should not be an executive session because there hasn27t been sufficient disclosure of what was being discussed," the resident said during the meeting.
Selectman David Winchell Jr. and the Town Administrator responded that the discussion related to a current town employee and that Maine law permits personnel matters to be discussed in executive session when public discussion would violate an individual's privacy or reputation. After the executive session, the Board reconvened and read a prepared statement explaining the Transfer Station hiring sequence and subsequent legal concerns.
