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Commissioners schedule multiple executive sessions, approve administrative items including Christmas Eve personal day
Summary
The Coffey County Board entered a series of short executive sessions covering non‑elected personnel and attorney‑client matters (no action reported) and approved administrative items including advertising for hospital board vacancies and designating Christmas Eve 2026 as the county personal day.
During the meeting commissioners approved several short executive sessions for personnel matters and attorney-client privileged legal advice. The board moved into a five-minute executive session to discuss non-elected personnel and a medical-update matter under the Kansas Open Meetings Act (KSA 75-4319(b)(1)); the record indicates no action was taken on return. Additional five- and 15-minute executive sessions followed for job performance/classification and for attorney-client legal advice related to county policy, each recorded with the statutory basis and showing no action taken when the board reconvened.
On administrative items, staff said they will advertise for three hospital-board vacancies (terms expiring Dec. 31) and a fire-board vacancy. Commissioners discussed airport planning tied to a recently completed industrial road and agreed to begin work to identify buildable sites for economic development. The board unanimously approved a motion (moved by Thompson, seconded by McCurry) designating Christmas Eve in 2026 as the county’s single personal day, consistent with past practice of closing county offices on the Thursday and Friday of that week.
The meeting ended after a few final items and the chair adjourned the session.
