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Goessel USD 411 board approves consent items, hires staff and holds executive sessions on personnel
Summary
The Goessel USD 411 Board approved the agenda and consent items — including a $1,085.21 donation for Red Ribbon Week and two personnel appointments — introduced a new fifth-grade teacher and held multiple executive sessions to discuss non-elected personnel matters. The meeting adjourned at 9:02 p.m.
The Goessel USD 411 Board of Education met on Oct. 14, 2024, in the Board Conference Room at Goessel Elementary School and adopted the meeting agenda before approving a consent package that included financial reports, a $1,085.21 donation for Red Ribbon Week and two personnel appointments.
Board President Kelly Booton presided. Board member Sara Hiebert moved to adopt the agenda; Patrick Flaming seconded, and the motion carried 5 to 0. Later, the board approved the consent agenda, which included a Cash Summary and Check Listing (totaling $170,061.20), district credit card usage of $6,946.03, and the donation from the Marion County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition. Bryant Miller moved to approve the consent agenda; Kelly Booton seconded. Carried 5 to 0.
Personnel items approved through the consent agenda included hiring Kelli Willis as a part-time junior high/high school custodian and naming Krista Graber as junior high Quiz Bowl sponsor. The minutes list those personnel actions as part of the single consent vote; no separate roll-call of individual hires is recorded.
During special presentations the board informally introduced Ms. Liz (Elizabeth) Alderfer as a new fifth-grade teacher. A Goessel High School civic/community government project overseen by Mr. Dunne was noted on the agenda as a student-sharing item. Becky Suderman attended on behalf of Parents as Teachers.
The agenda also listed planned administrator reports (elementary, junior high/high school and superintendent) and discussion items including a Marion County Special Education Cooperative report, legislative updates, KESA 2.0 (school improvement day at ESSDACK), a draft curriculum resource adoption process, and a Kansans Can Star recognition letter; the minutes record these as agenda items but do not provide substantive detail about their content.
The board entered executive session multiple times to discuss an individual's employee performance under the Kansas Open Meetings Act (KOMA). The first executive session motion, made by Bryant Miller and seconded by Sara Hiebert, cited the KOMA exception for non-elected personnel; the board entered executive session at 8:02 p.m. and returned to open session at 8:32 p.m. A subsequent motion by Ben Schrag, seconded by Patrick Flaming, sent the board back into executive session; the minutes record returns to open session at 8:39 p.m. and at 9:01 p.m. The minutes state the executive sessions were to protect confidentiality and privacy interests; no personnel details were released in the minutes.
The meeting adjourned at 9:02 p.m. The board scheduled its next regular meeting for Nov. 11 at 7:00 p.m.
