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Taos Municipal Schools board amends superintendent contract to add legislatively mandated 4% raise after auditor update
Summary
The Taos Municipal Schools Board voted unanimously to amend the superintendent’s contract to include a legislatively mandated 4% raise after an auditor updated the board on the status of a special audit; the board entered and exited executive session for personnel and audit matters.
The Taos Municipal Schools Board of Education voted unanimously to amend the superintendent’s contract to include a legislatively mandated 4% raise after receiving an update from the district’s auditor on the status of a special audit.
The action followed an executive session the board entered at 6:08 p.m. to discuss limited personnel matters and the special audit. The board cited the New Mexico Open Meetings Act and the New Mexico Audit Act when closing the session for those matters.
During the meeting President Flores moved to exit executive session and then moved to amend the superintendent’s contract "to include the legislatively mandated 4% raise," a motion that Board Member King seconded. The district recorded that the board asked the auditor to update trustees and that the board and superintendent discussed the status of the special audit; the meeting record states, "No other discussion was had during that time."
A roll call vote on the contract amendment was taken; Board Member King, Board Member Concha, Secretary Trujillo, Vice President Sprague and President Flores each voted yes. The motion passed and the amendment was approved.
The board also recorded that the agenda had been amended to move item 9.2 in front of 9.1 for the executive session discussion. The meeting record identifies the legal bases for the closed session as section 10-15-1(H)(2) of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act for personnel matters and section 12-6-5 of the New Mexico Audit Act and 02/1983 NMAC for the auditor update.
The board did not record additional public actions tied to the special audit during the session; the auditor provided an update to trustees and the superintendent, and the board proceeded to the public agenda after exiting executive session. The board set no formal follow-up motion about the audit on the record during the portion captured here.
Trustees adjourned the meeting after conducting other business; the district’s next regular board meeting was announced for July 23, 2025, at 6 p.m. at the Administration Building.
