At its regular meeting, the King George County School Board approved routine business on the consent agenda, accepted community donations, approved deletions to the policy manual and conducted a closed session on personnel matters.

The board approved amended minutes for the Oct. 20 meeting and the Nov. 11 disciplinary-hearing and regular meeting minutes after motions from board members. The board accepted donations presented at the meeting, including a $1,500 donation from the King George Dahlgren Rotary Club for elementary math materials and 96 coats and hoodies distributed across the division; one board member abstained on an item tied to a member and that abstention was recorded.

On policy, the board voted to delete three items from the policy manual (related to automated external defibrillators/AED forms and a rights-and-responsibilities exhibit) after administrative review showed the material appears in other policies and these entries were redundant.

Late in the meeting a member moved, citing state code language read into the record, to convene a closed session "to review hires, reassignments, substitutes, resignations, stipends, and school board self-evaluation specifically reviewing the superintendency evaluation" as permitted under the Virginia open-meeting statutes the member read aloud. The board convened, later reconvened in open session, certified that only matters specified in the motion were discussed and approved the recommendations that remained confidential per statute. The board then adjourned.

What happened next: the board certified its closed-session compliance pursuant to the code section recited in the motion and approved the personnel recommendations from closed session; no additional public action on those personnel matters was taken in open session.