Rice Lake board approves minutes and consent agenda, then moves to closed session on personnel matters

At the Nov. 24 meeting the board approved the Nov. 10 regular-session meeting minutes and then approved a consent agenda that included three resignations and two employment recommendations. A motion to approve the minutes was seconded and passed by voice vote. The consent agenda was moved and seconded and approved without recorded opposition.

Later in the meeting the board chair asked for a motion to convene into closed session under Wisconsin law to discuss individual employee matters and to approve closed meeting minutes. The motion to go into closed session cited Wisconsin statutes and was moved and seconded; board members then took a roll-call vote and recorded affirmative responses from members present. The chair read the statutory references for closed-session authority on the record prior to the roll call.

Formal actions recorded at this meeting: - Approval of Nov. 10 regular-session meeting minutes (voice vote; approved). - Approval of the Nov. 24 consent agenda (three resignations, two employment recommendations; motion moved and seconded; approved). - Motion to convene into closed session pursuant to Wisconsin statutes (individual employee contract and closed-session minutes approval); motion carried on roll-call vote and the board went into closed session.

The meeting record shows the closed-session roll call included affirmative responses to the motion to close from the membership called (responses recorded as 'Yes' or 'Here' in the transcript). The board did not return to further open-session business in the publicly available portion of the transcript.

What’s next: the closed session addressed individual employee contract matters and the district administrator evaluation; any public action stemming from closed-session deliberations will appear in a future open meeting or as required by law.