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North Kingstown School Committee upholds superintendent recommendation on parent appeal, approves personnel item
Summary
At a special Aug. 26 meeting, the North Kingstown School Committee moved into executive session under RIGL for personnel and student-privacy matters, then in open session sealed the executive minutes, upheld the superintendent’s recommendation on a parent appeal and approved a personnel item before adjourning.
The North Kingstown School Committee on Aug. 26 moved into and out of an executive session cited under RIGL and in open session voted to uphold the superintendent’s recommendation in a parent appeal, approved a separate personnel item and voted to seal the executive-session minutes.
The committee’s chair opened the special meeting and announced the executive-session grounds, saying, “So it is August 26, and I will call the, North Kingstown School Committee special meeting to order,” and citing RIGL authority for discussions of job performance and student-privacy matters. The chair also said the meeting would include matters related to a parent appeal of an involuntary transfer and that involved staff had been notified in writing of their rights under the statute.
After the executive session, the committee returned to open session and conducted the Pledge of Allegiance and roll call. No members of the public were signed up to speak during the citizen-comment period; the chair noted there were none.
The clerk moved to seal the executive-session minutes and stated that "no votes were taking in executive session today," a disclosure the committee accepted by voice vote. Under new business the clerk then moved "to uphold the superintendent's recommendation" on the parent appeal; the motion was seconded and the chair announced that the motion carried with no abstentions. The committee subsequently approved a separate personnel item after a motion and second, and the chair confirmed that motion also carried.
The meeting closed after a motion and second to adjourn. Final remarks briefly mentioned "doctor Duma and the, district attorney" before the meeting ended.
The committee did not publish a roll-call vote count in the open transcript beyond voice votes and the chair’s announcement that motions carried; details beyond the chair’s and clerk’s statements were not specified in the meeting record provided.
