Kenston Local School Board approves personnel items, moves into executive session

The Kenston Local School Board met in special session Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, voted to approve listed classified personnel items and a supplemental contract, and then entered an executive session to discuss personnel matters.

Board officials opened the special meeting and read legal notices required for special meetings. Speaker 1 said the meeting was held in accordance with the Ohio Revised Code and that agenda materials had been distributed in advance through the district’s electronic agenda system. Speaker 1 also read the board’s public comment policy (board policy 0169.1) and said no public commenters were present.

When the board turned to agenda item 5, Speaker 1 introduced classified personnel items 5.1 and 5.2 and asked for a motion. “So moved,” Speaker 2 said. A roll call followed and affirmative responses were recorded; the motion to approve the listed classified personnel items was carried.

Speaker 1 then read item 5.4 as a notice of intent for a non‑teaching rehire for Linda Murphy. No vote on 5.4 is recorded in the public portion of the transcript; it was presented as notice of intent.

Under agenda item 6, Speaker 1 said there was one supplemental contract (6.1) for approval and asked for a motion. A motion and a second were provided; the roll call recorded affirmative responses and the supplemental contract motion was carried.

Before adjourning the public portion of the meeting, Speaker 1 said the board would move into executive session under Ohio law to discuss matters allowed in executive session, including the employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion or compensation of a public employee, and cited Ohio Revised Code 121.22 as defining the sunshine law and executive‑session rules. Speaker 1 asked for a motion to enter executive session; “Jim” moved and “Beth” seconded. The board entered executive session at 04:22 p.m., and Speaker 1 stated for the record that no business would be conducted after the executive session and the board would move directly to adjournment.

The transcript does not record substantive debate, specific personnel details disclosed during the public session, nor any formal actions taken inside the executive session. Recorded motions in the public portion include approvals of the listed classified personnel items and the supplemental contract; the transcript records movers/seconders in spoken form but does not include a fully detailed, named roll‑call tally in the public text for each motion beyond affirmative responses called during roll calls.