Board of Education School District No. 67 v. Sikorski

The instant appeal questions whether the Board of Education of School District No. 67 (the Board) violated certain provisions of the Open Meetings Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 102, par. 41 et seq.) and the School Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 122, par. 1—1 et seq.) in the public sale of certain Board property to defendant Bernard Katz & Co., Inc. (Katz), and whether these violations were grounds to render the sales contract between the Board and Katz unenforceable as void ab initio. We conclude that the Board’s holding of an executive session to decide that the sale of school property…