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Board authorizes destruction of selected closed‑session audio recordings from 2024
Summary
The board voted Jan. 12 to authorize the superintendent to destroy verbatim closed‑session audio recordings from seven specified 2024 meetings; the motion passed unanimously.
The Sesser‑Valier Board voted to keep closed session minutes closed and to authorize the superintendent to destroy seven verbatim closed‑session audio recordings from 2024. The motion, made by Lance and seconded by Dilliner, listed the affected meeting dates by calendar day — Jan. 8; Feb. 12; Mar. 11; Apr. 15; Apr. 18; May 13; and June 17, 2024 — and passed with six yeas and zero nays.
Board members cited the Open Meetings Act exceptions during the meeting when moving into closed session on personnel and collective bargaining items; the minutes reference statutory exceptions by citation (5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1) and (2)). The board kept closed session minutes closed to the public and recorded the superintendent as authorized to destroy the specified verbatim audio records.
The action does not delete written closed session minutes; it authorizes destruction of recorded verbatim audio for the listed dates only. The minutes do not record dissenting viewpoints and list no additional conditions on the destruction.
