Kershaw County board enters executive session for personnel and adopts nonsectarian invocation policy

Summary

The board voted to go into executive session to discuss personnel matters, accepted administration recommendations on employment upon return, and adopted a policy to begin meetings with nonsectarian invocations drawn from the list provided by the South Carolina General Assembly under section 6-1-160.

The board moved into executive session to discuss personnel matters, including resignation and retirement of certified and classified personnel, employment actions, assignment changes and transfers. Coach Blackman made the motion to enter executive session; Mister Roberts seconded, and the motion passed by voice vote.

After returning to open session, the board moved to accept the administration’s recommendations concerning the employment matters discussed in executive session. The motion to accept the recommendations was made by Miss Furnace, seconded by Mister Roberts, and passed by voice vote.

Separately, citing guidance from the district attorneys, an unidentified speaker moved that the board begin meetings with an invocation that "does not advance, prefer, or disparage any 1 faith, belief, or creed" and that the board select invocations offered by the South Carolina General Assembly in accordance with section 6-1-160 of South Carolina law. The motion was seconded by Miss Furnace and approved by voice vote.

The meeting adjourned after the invocation motion was adopted.