The Board of Commissioners convened a special meeting Sept. 23, 2025, and voted to enter an executive session for one hour to discuss collective bargaining strategies.

The move to go into closed session was made and seconded during the meeting; commissioners voted by voice and the motion passed. “I will move that we enter into a second session, for a period of 1 hour,” one meeting participant said before the voice vote. The board recessed into executive session and reconvened on the record at 2:32 p.m.

The nut of the meeting was procedural: the board held the closed session solely to discuss collective bargaining strategy. After returning to the public record, a board member said, “We are back on the record after executive session discussing collective bargaining,” and stated that “no action will be taken at the conclusion of the executive session.”

During the closed session, the transcript records that Sheriff Hague, Administrator Todd Mulkey, and Don Wenzel joined at about 1:37 p.m.; Commissioner Randy Johnson joined at about 1:50 p.m. No votes, contracts, budget decisions, or directions were recorded as outcomes of the executive session.

Because the board cited collective bargaining strategy as the subject for the closed session, details of the discussion were not placed on the public record. The meeting record provided the scheduled duration (one hour) and the return time (2:32 p.m.) but did not specify any next steps or follow-up assignments in the public portion of the meeting.

The special meeting was framed strictly as an opportunity for the board to confer in private on bargaining strategy; there was no public comment or substantive policy decision recorded in the public minutes.

Future public action related to collective bargaining — including motions, ratifications, or changes to employee contracts — would appear in a subsequent, public agenda item if and when the board chooses to take formal action.