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Board amends agenda, removes attorney consultation item and enters executive session on negotiations
Summary
Trustees amended the agenda to remove an executive-session item because an invited participant was ill, and subsequently voted to move into a 30-minute executive session to discuss labor negotiations for the 2026–27 school year; named administrators were invited to attend.
The Garden City USD 457 Board of Education amended its agenda midmeeting and moved into executive session to discuss labor negotiations.
A last-minute notice that a participant could not attend prompted the board to move to amend the agenda to remove K2 (consultation with attorney). Speaker 3 moved the amendment and Speaker 8 seconded; the motion carried.
Later, Speaker 3 moved that the board go into executive session for 30 minutes to discuss negotiations for the 2026–27 school year under the employer-employee negotiation exception and invited administrators — Joe Diamond, Drew Tahn, Steve Norby and Jessica Nothern — to join. The board moved into executive session as announced; the transcript records the motion, the invitation list and the start/end times but does not include the executive-session discussion itself.
The board reconvened after the executive session per the meeting rules (reconvening not included in the provided transcript excerpt).
