Campton Hills trustees permit remote participation for Trustee Boatner, recess to review correspondence before closed session on personnel and legal matters

Campton Hills trustees voted to allow Trustee Boatner to participate remotely and agreed to take a 20-minute recess before convening a closed session to discuss personnel and legal-counsel matters.

The motion "to allow Trustee Boatner to participate due to a work related absence" was offered aloud by the speaker who conducted roll call and was seconded; the chair called for a voice vote, several members responded "Aye," and the chair announced the motion passed. The transcript records the motion in incomplete wording as spoken during the meeting: "Move to allow trustee Boatner to participate due to a work related absence from." The meeting did not record individual roll-call votes for that motion in the transcript.

Shortly afterward a trustee requested time to review newly received correspondence before proceeding. That trustee said they preferred either to wait for Trustee Millette to arrive or set a time limit; the body agreed to a recess. A formal motion to recess was made and seconded; after a brief discussion about the length (participants mentioned both 20 minutes and, at one point, "36"), trustees settled on a 20-minute recess. The chair said the board would reconvene after the break and then make a formal motion to enter closed session.

Before the planned closed session, the chair summarized the reasons the board intended to meet behind closed doors: "appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of a specific employee, or for legal counsel for the [Village of Campton Hills]." The transcript uses the phrase "Hampton Hills" in that line; meeting materials and local context identify the governing body as Campton Hills, and this article uses the corrected municipal name.

There was no public comment during the period recorded in the transcript, and the meeting paused for the agreed recess. The transcript does not record further deliberations, a formal closed-session motion or vote, or any final outcomes after the recess in the excerpt provided.

Next steps: trustees expected to reconvene after the recess to make the formal motion to enter closed session; no further public actions or votes are recorded in the provided transcript excerpt.