Board approves list of guardians authorized to carry firearms on school property

The school board voted 7-0 to approve a list of staff and/or board members authorized to carry firearms on school property under district regulation CCC(LOCAL), CKC(LOCAL) and GKA(LOCAL).

Board members said the list approved at the public meeting reflected names the board reviewed during closed session. "What we're approving today is the new guardians. We already had a list. So the ones that we talked about that are new guardians in closed session, those are the ones you're approving," a board member said.

The chair asked for a motion after closed-session discussion; the board moved, seconded and carried the motion 7-0. No names were read into the public record during the meeting transcript provided; the board chair indicated the list had been presented in closed session and then approved in open session.

Ending The action was recorded as an approval of the list presented; no additional implementation details were discussed in open session.