The Horizon Township High School Board of Education voted Dec. 9 to enter an executive session, citing exemptions in the Illinois Open Meetings Act that allow closed deliberations on litigation, personnel matters, collective bargaining and student issues.

Board officials read the motion and the statutory bases that would justify a closed meeting, citing the Open Meetings Act provisions 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(11) (litigation), 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1) (employee appointment, discipline or dismissal), 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(2) (collective bargaining and salary schedules) and 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(10) (matters related to individual students). An unidentified board member moved the motion and another seconded it; the moving member said, “So moved,” and a second member said, “Second.”

On the roll-call vote that followed, the transcript records five members voting “aye” and two members absent. Those recorded as voting “aye” were Miss Mulmer, Miss Dixon, Miss Morris, Doctor Fisher and Miss Barbourhan. Mister Ocasio and Miss Smith were recorded as absent. The transcript also contains an earlier attendance remark, “We have 4,” during initial roll call that is inconsistent with the subsequent roll-call vote count recorded in the transcript.

The motion authorized the board to retire into executive session; no further public action or deliberations were included in the public transcript provided. The statutes invoked permit the board to hold closed deliberations on pending or probable litigation, personnel matters (including employment and discipline), collective-bargaining strategy and confidential student matters. The transcript does not record any additional detail about the subjects to be discussed in closed session, the identities of any particular employees or students involved, or a timeline for returning to open session.

The board’s action will remove the specified items from public view for the duration of the executive session under the cited statutory exceptions. The public record in the transcript ends with the roll-call approval of the motion to convene the closed session.