Public Meetings: Closed Session and Minutes

During a public meeting, the Board may go into closed session for several different reasons.

A simple majority vote is needed for a closed session if the Board is discussing issues involving a Township employee.

A two-thirds roll call vote is required to go into closed session if the board is discussing the following issues:

• The board is considering purchasing or leasing property, up to the time an option to lease or purchase is made.
• To consult with their attorney regarding legal issues, but only if an open meeting would have a detrimental financial effect on the Township.
• To review and consider the employment or appointment of someone to a public office, if the candidate requests they do so. However, all interviews are done in open meetings.
• To consider material exempt from discussion or disclosure by state or federal statute.

When the Board enters a closed session, separate minutes are kept and those are not available to the public.

The publicly available minutes will record the reason for voting on a closed session, who voted to go into a closed session, and what time the board went into and out of a closed session.

Outside of closed sessions, minutes are kept for every meeting and are available for the public to review.

These minutes show the date, time, place, members present, members absent, and any decisions made at a meeting open to the public.

Minutes reflect what was done at meetings, not what was said.

Within eight days after the meeting is concluded, the minutes are posted on our website under the “Agenda and Minutes” tab.

The minutes are approved at the following regular meeting.