At the regular meeting, the board approved routine business items and voted to enter executive session for contract negotiations and personnel matters.

Presiding board member (Speaker 2) called for approval of the consent agenda with the addendum; a motion and second were recorded and the board approved it by voice. The board later approved the November 10 regular meeting minutes and the November 17 special meeting minutes after a motion and second. Financial reports and bills were similarly moved, seconded and approved by voice.

Near the end of the meeting, Board member (Speaker 3) moved to go into executive session, citing South Dakota codified law as read in the meeting (identified in the transcript as "1 25 2 4" for contract negotiations and "1 25 2 1" for discussion of qualifications, competence, performance, character or fitness of any public officer or employee); the motion was seconded and the board voted to enter executive session.

The transcript records the motion and the vote to enter executive session but contains no public detail of what was discussed during the closed session. No final public action on those matters was taken at the time of adjournment to executive session.