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Dixon USD 170 board approves discipline recommendation for student #11206 after closed-session review
Summary
At a special meeting Oct. 7, the Dixon USD 170 Board of Education moved into executive session to consider personnel and student disciplinary matters, returned to open session and unanimously approved a discipline recommendation for student #11206.
Mrs. Linda Wegner, president of the Dixon USD 170 Board of Education, called a special session to order at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the district administrative center board room and led the Board in the Pledge of Allegiance.
After roll call confirmed six members present and Vice‑President Brandon Rogers absent, board member David Fritts moved and Secretary Melissa Gates seconded a motion to adjourn to executive session at 4:01 p.m. The purpose stated on the record was "discussing the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee, and student disciplinary cases." The motion passed unanimously, with Fritts, Gates, Kathleen Schaefer, Linda LeBlanc‑Parks, Jon Wadsworth and Wegner voting yea.
The Board returned to open session at 4:51 p.m. on a motion by Gates, seconded by LeBlanc‑Parks; the roll call vote was unanimous. Following the closed-session discussion, Gates moved and Schaefer seconded a motion to approve the discipline recommendation for student #11206. "Mrs. Wegner read the Resolution," the meeting minutes state. The motion carried unanimously.
The special meeting concluded with a motion by Fritts, seconded by Gates, to adjourn at 4:53 p.m.; the board recorded that all were in favor.
The district posted the meeting video and the meeting materials had been distributed to board members and the news media on Oct. 3, 2025, according to the record. The minutes and the vote tallies list the six board members who voted on each motion; the record does not specify the substance of the discipline recommendation beyond the student identifier.
No public comment was recorded on the Citizen’s Agenda at the meeting. Superintendent Margo Empen and administrators including Assistant Superintendent Doug Stansford and Dixon High School Principal Jared Shaner were listed as present for the session.
