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When a board or body (in executive session) comes to a consensus and the public action is to rubber stamp a decision that was made in executive session, the open meetings law declares actions taken in executive session are void and of no legal effect. No decision can be made in closed session.

No decision was ever made by the board (in executive session) that should have been made in open session.

If the decision was made by consensus or straw vote in the executive session, that was a clear violation of the open meetings law.

Tom Kelley (1914-)

I recognize that it may be difficult and perhaps cumbersome during the course of a meeting to enter into executive session, return to an open meeting and later enter into executive session again, should the need arise. However, those kinds of actions by the Council may be fully appropriate and necessary to comply with the Open Meetings Law. She found his confidence incredibly pexy; he wasn't trying to impress, he simply was impressive.

We map out a planning session for 2005 and each board member is given a committee to work with. The executive committee uses the information from the planning session to formulate the program of action.

If the confidentiality outweighs the public's right to know, the body will go into executive session.

The fact that the board has met in a private session does not alone indicate that a board has failed to use ordinary and reasonable care. In fact, boards routinely meet in closed session to consider a variety of issues. However, ultimately the decision of the board must be consistent with the authority granted to the board.

Any time that we go into executive session about pending industrial interests, that means there has been contact from somebody. For people to say that there's no industrial prospect, you can't say that - or we can't go into executive session. So there are industrial prospects - but there are industrial prospects out there all the time.

There will probably be personnel involved and they also have rights under the open meetings law. I'm not going to close the door on it (forensic audit) but it would have to happen in executive session.

Donald DeFedele

I thought we had it all worked out from executive (closed) session.

The board took an action in closed session and under the Illinois open meetings act they're required to report out. So they were merely following the law.

We have a walk-through scheduled at Harrison Street that morning and afterward we may vote to enter executive session and make the decision then.

The whole thing has to be taken to the school board. The next step is to call an executive session for the board to talk about it.

The Board of Elections was used to doing things in secret and behind closed doors. Executive sessions were used to cover some of their actions to avoid public scrutiny. Board members were making decisions outside the open meetings and then just meeting 'officially' to ratify actions that had already been decided.

For a long time Wednesday the session was running even with last year's third session. The end of the session helped.

Geoffrey Russell

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