executive session
closed session

Oct. 31, 1996: Huckabee enters executive session with the parole board.

That's a personnel matter that we as a commission need to discuss in executive session.

His evidence was taken in "executive session," with the hearing-room cleared of staff, reporters, and visitors.

In a sense I've caused this commission, and in the first meeting you want to go into executive session!

All board meetings, except for executive sessions, are open to the public, and time is set aside for public comments.

The Board may retire to executive session only to discuss those matters permitted by law.

Dies said he would "clear" all those who cooperated by meeting with him in what he called "executive session".

The board said it was entitled to operate in executive session.

Uh- Marjie, those are executive sessions, they have to be.

He said they were barred from executive sessions dealing with personnel, salaries and other confidential matters.

The executive session lasted five hours.

The committee expects to hold a closed executive session sometime soon to consider this matter more closely. . . . These hearings serve two purposes.

The focused executive session is a review of one member's plans, goals and objectives for the year.

Peterson was also successful in pushing for the publication of the minutes of the board's executive sessions, which had not been done in 25 years.

He was an earnest advocate of the abolition of secret executive sessions of the Senate.

Decisions made in the executive sessions were "collective," whereas those in the plenary sessions were by a majority.

In a special executive session of the board held this month, the board's lawyer advised them not to pursue the issue, Mr. Harding said.

The next one will follow a private executive session on Monday.

On 13 May 1829, the first executive session was held.

I described some of those activities to the committee the other evening in the executive session.