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Chippewa Falls board approves agendas, moves to executive session to consider superintendent contract
Summary
At a board meeting, members approved the regular and executive-session agendas and voted to adjourn into an executive session to consider the superintendent's employment contract; the provided transcript ends during the roll call for that motion and does not include a final tally.
The Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District board approved the meeting agenda and the executive-session agenda, then moved to adjourn into executive session to consider the superintendent's employment contract.
Board member Dave Martin moved to approve the regular meeting agenda (item 1.03); a member identified in the transcript as Olsen seconded. Members responded by voice; the presiding officer announced, "Motion carries," approving the agenda as presented.
A separate motion to approve the executive-session agenda was then made and seconded by the same members; the board again approved that agenda by voice vote, and the presiding officer announced the motion carried.
Shortly afterward a motion was offered to adjourn into executive session "pursuant to section 19.851 7851 CE and F of the Wisconsin state statutes for the purpose of considering the employment contract of the superintendent position and to discuss any remaining contract negotiation and announcement of employment related to hiring the superintendent," a passage read verbatim from the record. The motion was recorded in the transcript as "Motion by Marco" and was seconded by a member identified as Fear. The clerk began a roll call; the recorded responses include confirmations from Dave Martin, Dennis Fear, Shar Jasper, Sharon Ma, Megan McKill, and Steve Olsson. The excerpt of the transcript provided ends while the roll call is in progress and does not include a final tally or a formal announcement that the motion carried.
Because the motion explicitly invoked statutory authority and cited personnel matters, the item was framed as a closed-session personnel discussion limited to the superintendent's employment contract. No substantive discussion of contract terms (salary, length, or conditions) appears in the provided excerpt.
The meeting moved to the procedural steps necessary to enter a closed session; the transcript ends before the final administrative step is recorded.
