A screen shot from the YouTube video of the Oct. 18 meeting of the Seymour Board of Selectpersons.
SEYMOUR — The members of the Board of Selectpersons met behind closed doors Tuesday night (Oct. 18) to discuss a privileged communication with its attorney.
Executive sessions are closed to the public and are allowed under state law under specific circumstances, such as talking about lawsuits, specific employees, real estate deals — and to receive legal advice. No votes are allowed to be taken in executive session, and it is against the law to change subjects while in private.
The meeting agenda explanation for meeting in the executive session did not go beyond discussing a communication protected by attorney-client privilege.
In addition to the regular board, Seymour Police Chief John Bucherati and Rory Burke, the town’s chief administrative officer, were invited into the discussion.
The board met for about 30 minutes in private, and then returned to public session without taking action on any matters related to the private discussion.
Drugonis told the Valley Indy following the meeting Tuesday that the matter deals with “a potential issue going on in town and we needed town counsel to give us advice about it.”
“The town attorney gave each of the board members a written communication in executive session; there was a discussion and no decisions were made, and the written communication was given back to the attorney,” Drugonis said.
