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Olympia School District board holds executive session to continue superintendent evaluation; no action taken
Summary
The Olympia School District Board of Directors convened a special virtual meeting June 20 to continue the superintendent's annual performance review in executive session under state law and took no public action; the board adjourned and scheduled its next regular meeting for June 26.
The Olympia School District Board of Directors convened a special virtual meeting Friday, June 20, 2025, to continue the annual evaluation of Superintendent Murphy and moved into executive session under state open-meetings law; the board said it did not expect to take public action and adjourned when the executive session concluded.
President Clifton told members of the public the meeting was called “for the purpose of continuing the board's annual review of Superintendent Murphy” and that the board would meet in executive session under RCW 42.30.110(1)(g), the state statute authorizing closed deliberations on personnel matters. She said, “We did not anticipate taking any action in our meeting today, and that is still the case.”
Board members began at 9:02 a.m., moved into the executive session, and briefly reconvened at 10 a.m. to extend the session for an additional 30 minutes. At 10:30 a.m. Clifton announced the executive session was finished and that the board was adjourned until its next regular meeting on Thursday, June 26, with a 6 p.m. public hearing on the budget followed by a 6:30 p.m. first reading of the budget.
No motions, votes, or formal decisions were taken or recorded in the public portion of the meeting. The board identified the meeting’s sole substantive agenda item as the superintendent evaluation and indicated discussion would remain confidential under the cited provision of the Open Public Meetings Act.
The special meeting followed an earlier session the previous week in which the board began the evaluation but postponed completion because members were too fatigued to continue, according to Clifton. The board did not provide public details of the evaluation discussion, consistent with the statutory exemption for personnel matters.
The board’s next regular meeting is scheduled for Thursday, June 26, 2025, at 6 p.m., beginning with a public budget hearing, followed by the first reading of the budget at 6:30 p.m., Clifton said.
