Open Meeting Law Overview

The agenda needs to indicate that a portion of the meeting will be closed. It usually does this by stating “executive session” with a reason or subject. An example of how this might appear is “Executive session to conduct library director evaluation.”

The board chair will announce that the board is going into executive session and will ask any members of the public to leave. If there are members of the public, try to give them an estimate of when the board will be done with the executive session and invite them to return at that time.

The minutes should indicate when the board went into executive session and when it returned from executive session. The board chair will announce that the board is leaving executive session to return to the normal meeting.