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Brookings board approves reduction-in-force notices for three staff after executive session
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Summary
After an executive session on personnel, the Brookings School District board approved the superintendent's recommendation to issue notices of nonrenewal to three staff members for the 2026-27 school year: Reed Przycki, Paige Miller and Cassidy Hunt. The action was moved and seconded and carried; no roll-call votes were recorded in the public minutes.
Following an executive session on personnel, the Brookings School District 05-1 board approved the superintendent's recommendation to issue notices of nonrenewal for three employees for the 2026-27 school year.
"I move to approve the superintendent's recommendation for reduction in force for the 2026-27 school year and to authorize the issuance of the required notices to Reed Przycki, Paige Miller, and Cassidy Hunt," the board president said when the board reconvened after executive session. The motion was seconded and carried.
The motion followed an executive session entered under South Dakota Codified Law 1-25-2 subsection 1 (personnel). The minutes record that the motion passed; the public record does not include a roll-call vote or individual board member votes.
Board materials and staff explained the action as part of broader staffing and schedule adjustments the district identified while balancing the budget and aligning staffing with the district's target class-size matrix. The superintendent had earlier described schedule and boundary audits used to reduce staffing costs without eliminating programs; nonetheless the district authorized issuance of the notices after personnel deliberations in executive session.
The board did not publish individual personnel records or specific reduction rationales in the public session; state law permits executive-session deliberation on personnel. The board stated the action was an authorization to issue notices of nonrenewal as part of the reduction-in-force process.
What happens next: the district will send required notices to the three employees and proceed with any statutory notices, appeals, or negotiated procedures that apply under state law and district policy.
