Board approves personnel packet and votes to enter executive session on student discipline

The board approved the personnel packet and then voted to enter an executive session to discuss student-discipline matters.

Staff presented the personnel packet which included: personnel recommendations across pages 1–8, personnel changes (pages 9–12), provisional pay for employees awaiting licensure, pay corrections for the 2025–26 school year, a request to temporarily overlap a bookkeeping position at central office to facilitate a transition, requests for stipends/additional pay for non‑certified staff newly hired as certified teachers to attend training, additional-pay requests for mentors and tutors (including a $30-per-hour stipend for mentoring work and after-school special-education tutoring), and dual-credit college instructor stipends (e.g., $2,500 per section for some dual-credit college biology sections). Several other additional-pay items for special programs and adjunct credit instructors were read into the record.

Superintendent James Olson recommended the board approve the personnel items; the board approved the packet by voice vote.

After approving personnel matters, the board considered a motion on whether to enter executive session to address student-discipline matters and voted in favor. The meeting concluded with the chair noting the board would return and announce whether it remained in executive session.

The transcript provides summaries of the personnel memos and pay amounts in some cases (for example, $2,500 per dual-credit section; $30 per hour for mentor support; $2,000 for a special-education satellite feature position), but it does not include individual employee names tied to those amounts or final personnel files. The executive-session motion identifies the subject as student discipline; no details of the discipline matter were read into the public record.