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Smithfield School Committee moves to executive session to review superintendent applicants
Summary
The committee voted to enter executive session under general laws 42-46-5A and 42-46-5A1 to consider applicants for the superintendent position; the motion was made and seconded and acknowledged by roll-call-style responses before the session began.
A motion was made and seconded at the April 2, 2026 Smithfield School Committee meeting to enter executive session to consider applicants for the position of superintendent of schools.
The motion cited "general laws 42-46-5A" and "42-46-5A1" as the legal basis for a closed-session discussion of personnel matters. Committee members responded in turn as the chair called the roll for the executive-session motion and the committee acknowledged; the motion carried and the meeting moved into executive session.
The transcript records the statutory citation and the committee’s procedural vote to move into private session but does not record applicant names, interview content, or any decision reached in executive session. Because the discussion and any deliberations on applicants were held under the stated statutory authority, they were not presented on the public record in this meeting.
Next procedural steps for hiring (for example, whether finalists will be publicly identified or brought back to open meeting for a vote) were not stated on the public record during the session recorded in the transcript. The committee’s use of the cited statute aligns with standard personnel-exception procedures for closed-session review of applicants.
