9322 - Public and Executive Sessions

Bylaws of the Board

9322 – Public and Executive Sessions

Public Meetings

Meetings of the Board of Education (Board) shall be open to the public with the exception of executive sessions.

Executive Sessions

The public shall be excluded from meetings of the Board which are held in executive session. The Board may hold an executive session upon a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting, taken at a public meeting and stating the reasons for such executive session, which shall be for one or more of the following:

1. Discussion concerning the appointment, employment, performance evaluation, health, or dismissal of a public officer or employee, provided that such individual may require the discussion be held at an open meeting.

2. Discussion concerning strategy and negotiations with respect to pending claims and litigation.

3. Matters concerning security, strategy, or the deployment of security personnel or devices affecting public security.

4. Discussion of the selection of a site or the lease, sale or purchase of real estate by the Board when publicity regarding such site, lease, sale, purchase or construction would cause a likelihood of increased price until such time as all of the property has been acquired or all proceedings or transactions concerning same have been terminated or abandoned

5. Discussion of any matter which would result in the disclosure of public records or the information contained therein described in subsection (b) of Section 1-210 of the Connecticut General Statutes, including, but not limited to:

a. Preliminary drafts or notes

b. Personnel files or medical files and similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute an invasion of personal privacy.

c. Test questions, scoring keys and other examination data.

d. Records, reports and statements of strategy or negotiations with respect to collective bargaining. Records pertaining to strategy and negotiation with respect to pending claims or pending litigation to which the Board is a party

e. The name or address and other information about students protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of any student enrolled in the district, without the consent of the parent or guardian of the student or the student if he/she is eighteen years of age or older

f. Legal opinions of the Board’s Counsel

Legal References:

Connecticut General Statutes

1-200 Definitions

1-210 Access to Public Records

1-225 Meetings of Government Agencies to be Public

1-226 Recording, Broadcasting or Photographing Meetings

1-206 Denial of Access to Public Records or Meetings

1-231 Executive Sessions

Policy adopted: May 1993

Revised: June 1999, November 2019

Replaces: 7400