Board of trustees approves superintendent staffing recommendations; chair abstains on personnel vote

At a virtual board of trustees meeting on April 1, 2026, the board approved the superintendent's recommendations for personnel changes and unanimously approved purchases and contracts for school safety equipment, the board chair said.

The meeting opened with the chair reading the legal notice required under the Freedom of Information Act and calling roll. Trustee Shanna Haskett moved to approve the meeting agenda "as presented," and the motion passed on a roll-call vote with Trustees Haskett, Dover, Betty Garrison and Amy Williams voting yes and the chair recording a yes vote.

The board then voted to adjourn into executive session "for the purpose of personnel matters regarding leaves, hires, and separations," a motion moved by Trustee Amy Williams and seconded by Trustee Dover. The board recessed for the executive session and later returned to public session to act on the superintendent's recommendations. "Having returned from executive session, we have the following action items," the chair said.

Trustee Shanna Haskett moved to approve the superintendent's recommendations for leaves, hires and separations; Trustee Betty Garrison seconded after an initial clarification about the second. On the roll-call vote Trustees Haskett, Dover, Garrison and Williams recorded yes votes; the chair stated, "And then I will be in abstaining on this 1," producing one abstention. The motion carried with four yes votes and one abstention.

The board then considered the superintendent's recommendations for school safety equipment and related contract matters. Trustee Dover moved the measure; Trustee Amy Williams seconded. The board recorded unanimous approval from Trustees Haskett, Dover, Garrison, Williams and the chair.

With no further business, Trustee Haskett moved to adjourn, seconded by Trustee Williams; the motion carried on a roll-call vote and the chair closed the meeting.

The meeting record lists the affected trustees as Trustee Shanna Haskett, Trustee Dover (last name given in the record only), Trustee Betty Garrison and Trustee Amy Williams. The transcript does not provide a full given name for Trustee Dover or an explicit on-record name for the chair beyond their role; where a full name was not stated in the record, the article uses the names exactly as they were spoken in the transcript.

No dollar amounts, contract vendors, or individual personnel hires and separations were specified in the public record provided; the superintendent's recommendations were approved as presented and any implementation details were not detailed in the transcript.