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Skyline Schools board holds repeated executive sessions to discuss negotiations under KOMA
Summary
The board repeatedly moved into executive session to discuss employer-employee negotiations under the Kansas Open Meetings Act (KOMA); administrators and the business manager were invited each time and the board returned to open session without public disclosure of negotiation details.
At multiple points during the Aug. 11, 2025 meeting, the Skyline Schools Board of Education voted to go into executive session to discuss employer-employee negotiations under the Kansas Open Meetings Act (KOMA). Each motion to enter executive session was made by Nicole Curtis and seconded by Mark Graber, and each motion was recorded as carried in the minutes.
Administrators and the business manager were explicitly invited to attend those executive sessions. The minutes record the start and end times for each return to open session (first return at 8:30 p.m.; subsequent returns at 8:41 p.m., 8:51 p.m., 9:02 p.m., 9:12 p.m., and 9:23 p.m.). The minutes do not disclose negotiation content, proposed contract terms, or outcomes of the negotiations in open session.
Because the matters were discussed in executive session under the KOMA exception, the minutes appropriately record that the board entered and resumed open session but do not provide substantive summaries or decisions made in private. Any follow-up actions or public decisions resulting from those sessions are not recorded in these minutes.
