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Spearfish School Board votes to enter executive session for employee contract negotiations
Summary
At its March 31 meeting, the Spearfish School District 40-2 board voted unanimously to move into executive session under South Dakota law to negotiate employee contracts; no public comments or conflict waivers were recorded before the motion.
The Spearfish School District 40-2 board voted Monday, March 31, to enter an executive session under South Dakota Codified Law 1-25-2(4) to discuss contract negotiations with employees or their representatives.
Board member 3 moved that the board "go into executive session underneath the South Dakota codified law 1 dash 25 dash 2, paragraph 4, pairing for contract negotiations or negotiating with employees or employee representative." A second was recorded on the record, but the transcript does not clearly identify who seconded the motion. A voice vote followed; the chair called for "all in favor," and members said "aye," after which the board moved into executive session.
The board opened the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance and approved the agenda by voice vote before noting there were no scheduled or unscheduled audience members and no apparent conflicts of interest waivers. The motion to enter executive session was the only formal substantive action reflected in the public portion of the transcript provided.
The board cited South Dakota Codified Law 1-25-2(4) as the statutory basis for the executive session. The transcript records the board's invocation of that statute but does not record any details of the contract negotiations themselves (those matters were discussed in executive session and are not part of the public transcript).
