All meetings of the Board and its committees will be open to the public except when:
- Deliberating after any judicial or quasi-judicial trial or hearing.
- Considering dismissal, demotion, licensing or disciplining of any Board employee provided the employee is given notice of any evidentiary hearing which may be held prior to final action being taken and of the meeting at which final action may be taken. The notice will contain a statement that the hearing or meeting be held in open session.
- Considering employment, promotion, compensation or performance evaluation data of any Board employee.
- Considering specific applications of probation or parole or considering strategy for crime detection or prevention.
- Deliberating or negotiating the purchasing of public properties, the investing of public funds, or conducting other specified public business whenever competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session.
- Considering financial, medical or personal histories, or disciplinary data of specific persons, preliminary consideration of specific personnel problems, or the investigation of charges against specific persons except where paragraph (b) applies which, if discussed in public would be likely to have substantial adverse effect upon the reputation of any person referred to in such histories or data, or involved in such problems or investigations.
- Conferring with legal counsel for the Board, or one of its committees, who is rendering oral or written advice concerning strategy to be adopted by the Board with respect to litigation in which it is or is likely to become involved.
- Consideration of requests for confidential written advice from the ethics board under state law, or from any local government ethics board.
When it is necessary for the Board to meet in closed session, the Board President, or in the case of Board committee, the committee chairperson, shall cite the specific open meeting except prior to adjourning an open session. No other business shall be taken up during that session.
The Board will not commence an open session, subsequently convene in a closed session, and then reconvene into an open session within a 12 hour period, unless public notice of the subsequent open session was given at the same time and in the same manner as the public notice of the initial meeting.
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