Santa Cruz Valley USD board convenes executive session to discuss superintendent contract

The Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District Governing Board voted Oct. 7 to convene an executive session to discuss the superintendent’s contract pursuant to Arizona open-meeting law.

The closed session was called during the regularly scheduled board meeting and held in Room 125. Board members moved and seconded the motion to enter executive session; the presiding vote was recorded as carrying and the board left the public meeting for the closed session. The board later reconvened its regular session and adjourned the meeting. No details about any contract changes, extensions, or related personnel actions were disclosed in open session.

Under Arizona law cited at the meeting, the board referenced a statute allowing discussion of personnel matters in executive session. The motion announced at the meeting identified Arizona Revised Statutes §38-431.03 as the authority for a closed discussion of the superintendent’s contract.

The board’s public actions before and after the executive session were limited to routine agenda approvals and the motion to enter the closed session. The transcript shows the motion to convene the executive session was moved, seconded and approved; the public meeting resumed later without a public vote on any contract terms.

Board members present for the Oct. 7 meeting included Renee Ramirez, Ben Guerrero, Alma De LaVida and Brad Beach; Nourdes Vasquez was recorded as absent in the roll call. Superintendent Verdugo attended the meeting and spoke during the superintendent’s report earlier in the agenda, but the transcript does not disclose any statements made in executive session or any final action taken on the superintendent’s contract.

The board scheduled its next regular governing-board meeting for Oct. 28. Any official action on the superintendent’s contract that requires public disclosure will appear in meeting minutes or a future open-session item, as required by law.