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Richland 02 school board fails to rescind May 27 budget action; special meeting adjourned
Summary
At a June 3 special meeting the Richland 02 School Board failed to rescind its May 27 action on the 2025–26 general fund budget and then voted 5–1 to adjourn the meeting after brief, sometimes heated comments from board members.
The Richland 02 School Board failed to rescind its May 27 action on the 2025–26 general fund budget and adjourned a June 3, 2025, special meeting after a 5–1 vote.
Mister Dennis, board member, moved to "rescind the action taken by the board at the 05/27/2025 regular board meeting regarding the 2025, 2026 general fund budget agenda item 8.1." Dr. Elkins Scott, board member, seconded the motion. The Board Chair said the rescind vote "will have to pass in order for us to have this meeting," and a hand vote was taken. "Okay. The motion fell," the chair recorded, and no further tally for that motion appears in the transcript.
After the rescind motion failed, Miss Washington, board member, moved to adjourn the special meeting; Miss Williams, board member, seconded. Members exchanged brief remarks before the vote. The chair said she felt the meeting had been "just a waste of time," and Mister Trapp, board member, said, "I believe we all voted our our consciences Tuesday night, and there was no reason to call this meeting." The transcript records the final count for the adjournment as "5 yes, 1 no. The motion passes. The meeting stands adjourned."
Board discussion during the special meeting focused on whether the May 27 action should be rescinded so that board members could revisit the 2025–26 general fund budget (agenda item 3.1 on the special meeting notice). The record shows a formal motion to rescind was made and seconded, a hand vote was taken, and the motion failed; the board then adopted an adjournment motion that passed 5–1.
The transcript does not record a roll-call tally with individual votes tied to the rescind motion. It does include a brief statement from Porter identifying herself as having voted yes earlier in the proceedings and multiple members urging either that the meeting proceed or that members decline calendar invites when they cannot attend. No additional actions on the general fund budget were taken at the June 3 special meeting according to the transcript.
