Chair moves; board votes to enter executive session on negotiations, legal matters, personnel and security

The board voted to move into an executive session to discuss labor negotiations, pending or imminent litigation, personnel matters and security and emergency-response arrangements. The chair introduced the motion and a member seconded.

The chair read the motion specifying the reasons for a closed session: "to prepare for, conduct, or review negotiations or bargaining session for public employees concerning their compensation or other terms and conditions of their appointment, and to, conference with the board's attorney to discuss matters that are subject of pending or imminent court actions, and to consider the employment compensation, dismissal, or discipline of a public employee and to discuss details relative to the security arrangements and emergency response protocols for a public body or public office if disclosure of the matters discussed could reasonably be expected to jeopardize the security of the public body or public office." That language was placed on the record before members voted.

After the motion and second, the chair called a roll vote. Missus Donahue, Missus Butler, Missus Ambergi and Missus Leskiewicz each answered "Yes," producing recorded assent from the members who were polled. The transcript records those four affirmative responses; the total number of board seats or whether any members were absent beyond those called was not specified in the record.

By the end of the recorded roll call the motion to enter executive session had been approved by the members who answered. The transcript does not record further public actions or any additional votes after the roll call; it does not identify the member who seconded the motion by name.