Board to interview manager candidate - executive session?

[Wild Dunes]

We are an HOA that is managed by a small board and that employs a community manager. We are in the process of hiring a new manager. Our final candidates will be interviewed by the full board in privacy. At our board meetings we go into Executive Session as needed. For this interview process, can we hold just an Exec Session or do we have to call a regular meeting and move into ES? Our governing documents do not speak to this.

[George Mervosh]

On 3/23/2022 at 6:16 PM, Wild Dunes said:

We are an HOA that is managed by a small board and that employs a community manager. We are in the process of hiring a new manager. Our final candidates will be interviewed by the full board in privacy. At our board meetings we go into Executive Session as needed. For this interview process, can we hold just an Exec Session or do we have to call a regular meeting and move into ES? Our governing documents do not speak to this.

The latter. Actions can only be taken at a regular or properly called meeting. Don't think of an executive session itself as a meeting.  It's simply a motion to exclude non-members (other than those invited to stay) and it imposes secrecy upon the proceedings.