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Corning and Villisca boards agree to offer Tim Hood interim superintendent contract after repeated closed sessions
Summary
At a special joint meeting April 27, 2026, the Corning and Villisca school boards repeatedly entered closed session under Iowa Code 21.5(1)(i) and reached a consensus to offer Tim Hood a contract as interim superintendent; the meeting included three executive-session motions recorded by roll call.
CORNING, Iowa — The Corning and Villisca school boards held a special joint session April 27, repeatedly entered closed session under Iowa Code Section 21.5(1)(i) to evaluate the professional competency of an individual, and reached a consensus to offer Tim Hood a contract as interim superintendent.
President Staci Venteicher called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. in the board room at Southwest Valley High School. Present from the Corning board were Directors Adam Boswell, Stephanie Hodapp, Trent Roberts and Ryan Shuey; Villisca board members Taylor Gray, Jason Poston, Leland Shipley and Tom Williams also attended. Board Secretaries Lyddon and Forsythe and consultant Paul Tedesco of EDWise Consulting were listed as present.
Early in the meeting, Director Stephanie Hodapp moved to approve the agenda; Director Trent Roberts seconded the motion, which "carried unanimously" in the minutes (the transcript does not include a roll-call vote for that motion).
The boards then voted, by a motion moved by Roberts and seconded by Hodapp, to enter closed session at 5:34 p.m. under Iowa Code Section 21.5(1)(i), which authorizes closed sessions to evaluate the professional competency of an individual when such a session is necessary to prevent needless and irreparable injury to that person's reputation and the person requests it. The minutes record roll-call "Yes" votes from Adam Boswell, Stephanie Hodapp, Trent Roberts, Ryan Shuey and Staci Venteicher; Voting No: none. The boards returned to open session at 6:32 p.m.
Shortly afterward, Roberts again moved and Hodapp seconded a second closed-session motion under the same Iowa Code provision; the boards entered closed session at 6:37 p.m. by the same roll-call yes votes. The boards returned to open session at 7:48 p.m. A third identical motion to enter closed session, again moved by Roberts and seconded by Hodapp, took the boards into closed session at 7:50 p.m.; they returned to open session at 8:28 p.m.
After the final return to open session, "it was the consensus of the boards to offer a contract to Tim Hood as interim superintendent," the minutes state. The transcript records the consensus but does not record a formal roll-call vote or the contract terms. The minutes do not indicate that a final formal appointment vote was taken at that meeting.
The meeting concluded when Roberts moved and Hodapp seconded to adjourn; the motion carried and the meeting adjourned at 8:31 p.m.
What it means: The boards used repeated executive sessions authorized by Iowa law to discuss personnel matters and emerged with a shared intent to offer an interim-superintendent contract to Tim Hood. The minutes document the statutory basis for the closed meetings (Iowa Code Section 21.5(1)(i)) and record roll-call votes for the motions to enter closed session but do not record details of the proposed contract or a formal appointment vote.
Next steps: The minutes show only a consensus to offer a contract; the record does not specify contract terms, the date the contract would be presented for formal approval, or whether either board separately ratified the offer at a later public meeting.
