Board schedules executive session to discuss personnel, evaluations and school safety; raises question about on-duty weapon prohibition

The Coffee County Board of Education asked for an executive session at the Sept. 25 work session to discuss personnel, hiring and employment of employees, system evaluations and school safety. The board chair asked for a motion to go into executive session "to discuss personnel and the hiring and the employment of employees, return system evaluation, and school safety."
Why it matters: Executive session indicates the board will consider confidential personnel and safety matters. Separately, board members raised a policy question about the district's prohibition on carrying weapons inside school buildings and whether narrow exceptions or clarifying language are needed for staff who must be on campus after hours (for example, maintenance workers responding to late-night calls).
During the discussion a board member said the policy currently prohibits anyone from carrying a weapon inside the school. He posed a hypothetical: a maintenance worker with a concealed-carry permit who must respond to a building in the middle of the night. The member asked the group to consider whether the blanket prohibition should remain or if the policy needs clarification.
No policy change or vote was recorded in the work session transcript. The request for executive session was made and a motion to move into executive session was solicited; the transcript ends with the board requesting that motion. Any confidential actions or further discussion will occur in executive session and, if required by law, be announced in open session afterward.