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Board of Education unanimously names David McGehee superintendent, authorizes contract negotiations
Summary
The board voted unanimously to hire David McGehee as superintendent effective July 1, 2025, and authorized the board president to enter negotiations on his employment contract; the board also held an executive session on personnel.
The Board of Education voted unanimously to hire David McGehee as its next superintendent of schools, effective July 1, 2025, and authorized the board president to enter into contract negotiations with Dr. McGehee during a remote special meeting.
The vote to hire McGehee was taken during a hand vote and recorded as unanimous. An initial motion to approve the superintendent contract was made and then withdrawn; the board then approved a revised motion authorizing the board president to enter into negotiations with Dr. David McGehee on behalf of the board. The motions concerning the hire and the authorization for negotiations passed with recorded tallies of 7-0.
Board members also moved into an executive session for discussion of non‑elected personnel. The board voted to enter executive session for 15 minutes to “discuss personnel matters of non elected personnel in order to protect the privacy interests of the individuals to be discussed” and planned to return to open session at 10:00. That motion passed (recorded as 6-0 at the time it was taken); the board later returned to regular session and recorded a 7-0 vote to resume open business. The meeting concluded with a unanimous vote to adjourn.
The meeting record includes a waiver of written notice under K.S.A. 72-8205 as to the time, place and purpose of the special meeting. The board did not finalize or publicly read a signed employment contract during the open session; instead, it authorized the president to enter negotiations, after which a signed contract would be handled per the board’s usual processes.
Procedural matters during the remote meeting included technical difficulties for at least one member and use of hand votes. The board did not provide additional public details in the record about the terms of a final contract, salary, or other compensation in open session.
The immediate next step recorded in the meeting was for the board president to conduct contract negotiations with Dr. McGehee on the board’s behalf; no final contract outcome was announced in open session at the time of adjournment.
