Salary and Personnel Committee votes to enter closed session on police union contract

The Salary and Personnel Committee voted to hold a closed-session meeting to discuss negotiation strategy for the Wisconsin Professional Police Association contract renewal, the committee chair said at the start of the session. “It’s 05:44, and I’ll call the salary and personnel committee to order,” the chair said, then asked the clerk to take roll call.

The chair announced two items would be discussed in closed session and cited Wisconsin state statute 19.851(e) as the legal basis for closing the meeting to consider collective-bargaining strategy and related personnel matters. The chair asked for a motion “to close.” After a second was recorded, the clerk conducted a roll-call vote and the motion carried; the chair then stated, “We’re in closed session.”

Roll call as recorded in the transcript shows Alder Truhart, Alder Wharton Wyler and Alder Bestien voting “Aye.” Alder Franke was called during roll but no response is recorded in the provided segments. The motion’s mover and the second are not identified by name in the supplied transcript excerpts.

Because the committee moved into closed session under a statutory exemption for negotiation strategy, the public record will not include the substance of those closed deliberations unless and until the committee returns to open session and takes public action. The meeting had opened by noting corrections to the minutes of 07/13/2026; no corrections are recorded in the supplied transcript.

The committee’s closed session was taken under the cited statutory authority to permit discussion of bargaining strategy for renewal of the police association contract. No further public actions or outcomes beyond entering closed session are recorded in the provided transcript.