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Greencastle school board holds executive session to consider public-official appointment
Summary
The Greencastle Community School Corp. board met in a closed executive session June 28 to consider prospective appointees under Indiana Code; the session reviewed statutory procedures for candidate lists and public interviews and adjourned with no appointment recorded.
The Board of School Trustees of the Greencastle Community School Corp. met in a closed executive session June 28 at the GCSC Administration Offices, 1002 Mill Pond Lane, in Greencastle to consider prospective appointments under Indiana Code IC 5-14-1.5-6.1(b)(10).
According to the meeting notice and the text recorded in the minutes, the session’s stated purposes included developing a list of prospective appointees, considering applications and making one initial exclusion of prospective appointees from further consideration. The minutes cite IC 5-14-3-4(b)(12) and IC 5-14-3-3 and note that, notwithstanding certain confidentiality provisions, a governing body may release and must make available for inspection and copying information regarding prospective appointees who are not initially excluded. The minutes also record that interviews of prospective appointees must be conducted at an open meeting.
The transcript of the minutes does not record any appointment, nomination, motion or vote. It records that the meeting adjourned at 5:55 p.m. and that the Board members present certified that “no subject matter was discussed in the Executive Session other than as stated above.”
The minutes list attendees by role and name where provided: a Vice President and a Secretary (roles listed in the minutes without personal names), Dale Pierce (Member) and Megan Inman (Member); two additional attendee lines in the transcript appear garbled and do not provide legible names. The minutes do not specify next steps or any scheduled public interviews.
Under the cited statutes, the district is required to conduct any interviews of candidates in a meeting open to the public and to make available certain information about candidates who remain under consideration after any initial exclusion. The minutes as provided do not indicate that an appointment was made at this session.
The board certified compliance with the stated purpose and adjourned. The transcript does not list any formal votes or further public dates; if the board proceeds to interview candidates, the statute cited in the minutes requires those interviews to be open to the public.
