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Thompson School District board votes 5-0 to enter executive session on teacher contract strategy
Summary
The Thompson School District R-2J board voted unanimously to meet in executive session to develop strategy for collective bargaining with the Thompson Education Association; the board announced no votes would be taken during the closed session and named staff who would attend.
The Thompson School District R-2J board voted 5-0 to enter an executive session to develop the district’s negotiation strategy with the Thompson Education Association.
The motion, as read aloud during the meeting, said the board may proceed into executive session "pursuant to C.R.S. 24-6-402 4E 1 and 3 for the purposes of developing the strategy of the school district for negotiations relating to collective bargaining with the Thompson Education Association." Denise Chapman read the motion on the dais; the transcript does not record who formally moved the motion or who seconded beyond an off-microphone "Second."
Laura Lee Ehlers conducted the roll call for the vote. Stu Boyd, Denise Chapman, Lori Gobel, Nancy Rumfelt and Mike Scholl voted in favor; the meeting recorded five votes in favor and zero against. The transcript does not record audible responses from Don Kirk or Alexander Lessum during the roll call segments.
Before adjourning into the closed session, the board announced it would go into executive session with Dr. Heller, Tiffany Rogers, Bob Ebersole and Laura Lee Ehlers in attendance and that it would return at 6:00 p.m. The presiding chair stated that no votes would be taken during the executive session.
No substantive discussion of bargaining positions or negotiation content was recorded in the public portion of the transcript. The executive session was described explicitly as a meeting to develop collective-bargaining strategy; no formal board actions or policy changes were adopted on the public record at this meeting.
