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Board actions: executive session for negotiations, consent agenda and end-of-meeting adjournment

5681207 · August 26, 2025
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Summary

At the Aug. 20 meeting the Lawrence Board recessed into an executive session to discuss employer-employee negotiations, adopted the consent agenda and adjourned; all recorded roll-call votes were unanimous.

The Lawrence Public Schools Board of Education recorded several formal actions during its Aug. 20 meeting. The board took three recorded votes on the public record: unanimous approval to recess into executive session for negotiations, unanimous adoption of the consent agenda and a unanimous motion to adjourn.

Executive session for negotiations: The board moved and amended a motion to recess into executive session to discuss employer–employee negotiations. The motion specified invited participants: Superintendent Dr. Janice Kerr Swift (named in the motion as "doctor Janice Kerr Swift"), Deputy Superintendent Dr. Engelbrecht and Cindy Frick, executive director of finance; the motion stated the purpose was to protect the public interest in negotiating a fair and equitable contract, and that the board would return to open session in…

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