Open and Executive Sessions

[Guest Rob]

In regards to Condo Association.  We start the meeting in exec. session and move to open session.  Once the open session is adjourned can we move back to exec. session?

 

Also, can voting be done during exec. session?

[jstackpo]

It is actually all one meeting.  You don't "adjourn" to go into Executive Session - or out of it. p. 95.

 

Voting?  Yes.

[Edgar Guest]

It is actually all one meeting.  You don't "adjourn" to go into Executive Session - or out of it. p. 95.

 

Though a brief recess might be appropriate in either instance.

[Edgar Guest]

Also, can voting be done during exec. session?

 

Anything that can be done in so-called "open" session can be done in executive session. The only thing (though it's an important thing) that meeting in executive session does is impose confidentiality (aka "secrecy") on the proceedings.

 

Non-members can be invited to attend a meeting held in executive session (though it's not common) and non-members can be excluded from a meeting held in "open" session.

[Gary Novosielski]

In regards to Condo Association.  We start the meeting in exec. session and move to open session.  Once the open session is adjourned can we move back to exec. session?

 

Once the meeting is adjourned, it's too late to do anything but put away the chairs and go home.   

 

Also, how do you manage to start the meeting in executive session without a motion to go into executive session (which would presumably be done in open session)?

[Edgar Guest]

Also, how do you manage to start the meeting in executive session without a motion to go into executive session (which would presumably be done in open session)?

 

If an assembly customarily (or by rule) meets in executive session I don't think a motion to do so is required.

 

Not that that's necessarily the situation in this instance.