Meeting votes to enter executive session to discuss litigation and a personnel matter

At 5:30 p.m., the meeting was called to order and members voted to go into executive session to receive advice from counsel and to discuss matters described as "pending threatened or anticipated litigation" and a personnel matter "involving the conduct, the performance, or the promotion of a particular individual." Ruth Groff moved to enter executive session and Christine Montag seconded the motion; a voice vote recorded ayes with no opposition on the public record.

The meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and a roll call in which Judy Drake, Lori Hemmings, Christine Montag, Joseph Wetmore and Ruth Groff announced their presence. After the motion was proposed, participants discussed the appropriate phrasing to cite the legal and personnel grounds for the closed session. Members described the legal ground as "pending threatened or anticipated litigation" and characterized the personnel matter as concerning an individual’s conduct, performance or promotion; no further details were disclosed in open session.

"I'd like to move to go into executive session," said the member who made the motion, which the chair confirmed was moved by Ruth Groff and seconded by Christine Montag. Following a brief exchange and a voice vote in which members said "Aye," the chair closed the public portion and directed that the meeting proceed to executive session to take up the stated matters.

No additional votes or public actions were recorded before the transition to the closed session. The public record from these segments contains the motion, the second and the voice vote; the content of the executive session was not discussed on the record.