Spearfish School Board enters executive session to prepare for employee contract negotiations

The Spearfish School Board (Spearfish School District 40-2) voted Monday to enter an executive session under South Dakota Codified Law 1-25-2(4) to prepare for contract negotiations with employees or employee representatives.

Unidentified Speaker 3 moved "to go into executive session underneath the South Dakota codified law 1 dash 25 dash 2, paragraph 4, preparing for contract negotiations or negotiating with employees or employee representative," and the motion was seconded. After a voice call for the vote, an "Aye" was recorded and the board moved into executive session. The public transcript ends as the board entered closed session and does not record any details of discussions that followed.

Earlier in the meeting, the board adopted the agenda by motion. Unidentified Speaker 2 moved to approve the agenda and a second was recorded; the chair called for a vote and the agenda was approved. The meeting record shows there were no scheduled or unscheduled public comments and that no conflict-of-interest waivers were reported.

South Dakota Codified Law 1-25-2(4), cited in the motion, authorizes public bodies to close a meeting for certain personnel- and negotiation-related discussions. The board did not disclose in the public portion of the meeting which specific contracts, employee groups, or bargaining units were to be discussed; the transcript contains only the motion and the vote to enter executive session.

The board took the executive-session vote during its opening procedures; the public record provides no subsequent vote or public outcome on any contract negotiations. Any actions or decisions resulting from the executive session were not recorded in the public transcript available here.