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Rantoul schools board votes to enter closed session on personnel matters
Summary
The board moved to a closed session under Illinois statute 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1) to discuss appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of specific employees; the motion carried 6–0 with one absence.
At the June 8 special meeting, the Rantoul City Schools District 137 board voted to enter closed session to discuss personnel matters under Illinois law. Niki Pettit moved the motion to go into closed session and Robin Vaughn seconded; the motion carried on a recorded voice vote: Yea 6, Nay 0, Absent 1 (Diana Mendoza).
The board cited 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1), the Illinois Open Meetings Act exemption permitting closed discussion of the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees. The transcript records the motion and the statutory citation but does not include any content of the closed session or any subsequent public action arising from it.
Because the meeting moved promptly to the closed session, no public deliberation or detailed response to the public comment recorded earlier in the meeting is in the public transcript. The board later returned and adopted a resolution that the transcript records as a public action.
