Creswell board enters contract negotiations with Amy Aguero, moves into executive session

The Creswell School Board announced at its meeting that it has entered contract negotiations with superintendent candidate Amy Aguero and moved into an executive session to review employment matters.

The board said a background check for the candidate had been completed and that contract negotiations are underway, and it introduced Aguero at the meeting. The chair said the board appreciated outgoing superintendent Mr. Johnson’s seven years of leadership and praised the candidate’s leadership work and focus on high-quality teaching and learning for Creswell students. “We’re excited about Amy for many reasons,” the chair said, congratulating the candidate.

Aguero, identified by the board as present, responded, “Thank you.”

Before the closed session the board approved its meeting agenda after a motion and a second; the chair indicated the motion carried by voice vote. The chair then announced the board would move into executive session “to review and evaluate the employment performance of our superintendent,” citing the authority given in the transcript as “OS 192.662i.” The chair said representatives of the news media, Superintendent Johnson and board secretary Marilyn Cruz were invited to attend the executive session and asked other audience members to leave the room. The chair also directed the news media not to report or otherwise disclose deliberations from the executive session except for the general subject previously announced and prohibited cameras, tape recorders and other recording devices during the session.

The chair stated that no decision would be reported from the executive session as announced; the transcript's wording on that point is garbled but the chair emphasized limits on reporting. The board did not record a formal vote to hire in the public portion of the meeting and no final employment decision was made public in the session recorded in the transcript.

Next steps the board described publicly are contract negotiations with Aguero and the closed executive session. No further public timeline or a final hire date was specified in the conversation included in the transcript.