Board approves personnel consent agenda; board member abstains on color guard volunteer appointment

Superintendent Buskirk recommended approval of the personnel consent agenda, which included resignations, new hires, substitutes and extracurricular contracts for fall sports and year-long club advisors. He asked the board to approve the full personnel consent agenda "as presented except for item 5.4, color guard volunteer, to be filled by Deborah Hagedorn," which he said would be considered separately. After the consent agenda passed, the board took a separate vote on the color guard volunteer appointment. The roll call on that item recorded four yes votes and one abstention: Mister Leeds, Mister Grant, Mister Fulham and Mister Carpenter voted yes; Missus Hagedorn abstained. Why it matters: personnel actions directly affect school staffing and extracurricular programming; the separate vote and recorded abstention on the color guard volunteer position were entered on the public record. No further discussion or conditions were recorded in the transcript about the volunteer appointment; the board approved the appointment with the abstention noted in the roll call. The wider personnel consent agenda passed by roll call earlier in the meeting with the five board members voting yes.