Patrick County School Board certifies closed session, approves personnel recommendation lists

The Patrick County School Board certified that a recent closed meeting complied with the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and approved multiple personnel and support‑staff recommendation lists at its meeting.

A board member who made the motion said the board hereby certified that “to the best of each member's knowledge” only public business lawfully exempted from open‑meeting requirements was discussed in the closed session. Board Member Scott and Board Member Harrell each responded “Yes” when polled about the certification.

After returning to open session, the chair solicited and the board approved a motion to adopt the personnel report as amended. The board then approved several certificate personnel recommendation lists (identified in the meeting as lists 1, 3 and 5) and multiple support‑staff recommendation lists (identified as lists 1–3 in the meeting record). Each approval was taken by voice vote; the meeting record does not specify named movers or recorded roll‑call tallies for these individual approvals.

The actions recorded in the meeting were procedural and administrative: a certification of a previously convened closed session under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and adoption of personnel and support‑staff recommendation lists. No additional substantive debate about the personnel items was recorded in the provided transcript excerpt. The meeting was then adjourned.