N. Personnel matters.

Other personnel matters. Specht v. Town of Cornwall, 13A.D.3d 380, 786 N.Y.S.2d 546 (2d Dep't 2004) (town's termination of probationary police department employee in technical violation of Open Meetings Law was not annulled because no prejudice resulted and violation could be corrected by recording vote on termination in minutes of executive session); Weatherwax v. Town of Stony Point, 97 A.D.2d 840, 468 N.Y.S.2d 914 (2d Dep't 1983) (executive session held by town board was in violation of OML; the board's policy decision not to extend insurance benefits to police officers on disability retirement applied equally to all retirees, even though decision affected only one person when made, and thus it could not be said that the meeting was to discuss the "medical, financial, credit or employment history of a particular person"); White v. Battaglia, 79 A.D.2d 880, 434 N.Y.S.2d 537 (4th Dep't 1980), mot. lv. appeal denied, 53 N.Y.2d 603, 421 N.E.2d 854, 439 N.Y.S.2d 1027 (1981) (appointment of school board member to fill vacancy was invalidated where meeting called on 3 1/2 hour notice with patent inadequacy of the notice); Orange County Publications v. County of Orange, No. 5686/78 (Sup. Ct., Orange County, Oct. 26, 1983) (possible salary increases for county clerk and sheriff should not have been discussed in executive session where discussion was of salary histories of the positions and not the particular persons involved).