State Board of Education adjourns to executive session to discuss confidential FY 2025 budget and personnel matters

An unidentified speaker at the State Board of Education workshop opened the meeting and announced the board would adjourn to an executive session to discuss confidential fiscal 2025 budget matters and personnel issues.

"Pursuant to section three-three 0 five(one) and b(thirteen) of the General Provisions Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, the state board will adjourn to executive session to discuss the following: Board workshop regarding confidential FY '25 budget matters and the budget process," the speaker said, citing the board's authority to close portions of its meeting. The speaker also invoked "section 3, subsection f of the State Board of Education governance and operations manual" as the procedural basis for discussing personnel matters in private.

"The floor is now open for a motion to allow us to go into executive session," the unidentified speaker said. A second was recorded by a person identified in the transcript as "Miss Getty" (also later referred to as "doctor Getty"). The chair then asked for a voice vote: "All in favor of allowing us to go to executive session, please say aye and raise your hand." Attendees responded, "Aye." The transcript does not record individual roll-call votes or a tally.

The board said it would adjourn from the executive session and reconvene at a future public meeting; the unidentified speaker thanked members of the public and said the board would meet again in a couple of weeks.

The public transcript records the motion to move into executive session and the board's invocation of the cited legal and governance provisions but does not include details of the confidential budget or personnel deliberations, nor does it provide a roll-call vote or vote count.