Marathon County Executive Committee votes to enter closed session for administrators performance review

The Marathon County Executive Committee voted unanimously to enter a closed session to consider the county administrators performance review.

The committee introduced agenda item 3A1, a final performance appraisal of the county administrator, and the chair said members could choose to go into closed session to finalize the review. The chair asked corporation counsel to provide a summary of the appraisal; the transcript record of that summary is not clearly captured.

The chair described the scoring approach the committee used: members rated the administrator on three criteria using categories of "needs improvement," "successful," and "exceptional," and those ratings were averaged on a scale of 0 to 5 to produce a final score. The chair then said a motion had been made and seconded to proceed, and asked the clerk to call the roll.

The clerk called membersnames and recorded responses from Gibbs, Dickinson, Arstead, Boots, Drebeck, Fifick, Mask, Ritter, Morash and Robinson. After the roll call the chair said, "So we will be in close session," and the committee moved into a closed session to continue the administrators review.

No mover or seconder names are identified in the record, and the transcript does not include a clear verbatim summary of the corporation counsels appraisal. The closed session was approved by unanimous recorded assent in roll call; no formal vote tally beyond the roll call responses was recorded in the public portion of the transcript.

The committees next public action or statements about the review were not captured in the available transcript.