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Brooke County Schools board votes 3-2 to enter executive session on employee suspension; no action taken
Summary
At its regular meeting, the Brooke County Schools board approved routine items including trips, technology purchases and payments, voted 3–2 to enter an executive session concerning an employee suspension and reconvened with no action taken during that session.
The Brooke County Schools board approved a string of routine requests and voted 3–2 to enter an executive session to discuss an unpaid suspension before reconvening and announcing no action was taken.
Board President said the meeting would move into new business and called for votes on several items, including permission for a Brook Middle School band trip and multiple school activity permissions from Jefferson Elementary. Those itemized requests were approved by voice vote.
District administrators secured approvals for special education purchases and technology procurements to be paid from grant and 21st Century technology budgets, including quotes accepted from vendors identified in the packet (Bump Armor, Advantage Extreme and Insight). The board also approved renewal of workers' compensation and property/casualty insurance with Erie Insurance and accepted a request to send staff to a West Virginia Department of Education summer conference in Morgantown.
A motion to move into executive (assessment) session to discuss an unpaid suspension for an employee identified in the agenda as Chalmer Noble was put to a roll-call vote and carried 3 in favor and 2 opposed. The board entered executive session at about 5:45 p.m. and reconvened at about 5:52 p.m.; the President announced that no action was taken while in executive session.
The board approved payment of bills; the President recorded the motion as carried with a tally of 5 in favor and 2 opposed. Personnel postings, hires and resignations listed on the agenda were read into the record and approved by voice vote.
Committee member questioned the scope and funding for one staffing stipend, describing it as “gonna be a stipend coming out of the Perkins Fund” directed toward additional career-technical counseling tasks and noting the amount discussed as “5,000.” The board left the item in the packet as presented.
The meeting closed with congratulations to state athletic winners and an announcement that the next regular meeting is scheduled for Monday, July 27 at 5:00 p.m.
No ordinances, codes or statutes were cited during the recorded votes; all formal motions and tallies are recorded in the official meeting minutes.
