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Board holds and certifies closed sessions on personnel and safety matters
Summary
The board moved into closed session under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act exemptions to discuss personnel and safety matters, then read and affirmed the required statutory certification upon return to open session.
The Bedford County School Board moved into closed session twice during the Aug. 6 meeting to discuss prospective candidates for employment and plans to protect school safety that, according to counsel, would be jeopardized by open discussion. The board cited the Code of Virginia exemptions that permit executive‑session discussion of personnel and security matters and voted to convene the sessions.
After each closed session, Miss Johnson (Speaker S2) read the statutory certification required by Virginia law: "Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Bedford County School Board hereby certifies that to the best of each member's knowledge, only public business matters lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements by Virginia law were discussed ... and only such public business matters as were identified in the motion convening the closed meeting were heard, discussed, or considered." The board affirmed the certification on the record.
The transcript does not record additional details about personnel decisions or security plans discussed in closed session.
