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Salina advisory board holds closed sessions, then finds preliminary determinations supported by evidence
Summary
After two executive-session recesses, the Salina advisory board voted down a motion to postpone and then approved motions finding that preliminary administrative determinations in two personnel complaints were supported by substantial competent evidence.
The Salina Bias-Based Policing Advisory Board recessed into executive session to review two personnel complaints under Salina code section 30-93(d) and KSA 75-4319(b)(1), then returned to make advisory determinations.
A board member moved to recess for 60 minutes “for the purpose of delivering in the manner outlined in Salina code section 30-93(d)” and to consider whether the chief of police’s preliminary administrative determination about an officer’s conduct was supported by substantial competent evidence. The motion was seconded and approved by voice vote, and members later approved a 15-minute extension to complete video review and deliberations.
Back in open session, the Chair introduced a motion “to postpone its advisory determination pending its review of additional information relevant to the board's consideration of whether the preliminary administrative determination … is supported by substantial competent evidence.” The motion was seconded and the board split on the vote; members recorded a 3–3 tie. As a board member observed, under the board’s adopted procedure a tie would be deemed “not sustained.”
After discussing the tie outcome and the options available, a member moved that “the advisory determination that the preliminary administrative determination of the status of the complaint is supported by substantial competent evidence.” That motion was seconded and carried on a subsequent voice vote with members announcing six “Aye” votes. The board then moved on the first case on the agenda and again made an advisory determination that the preliminary administrative finding was supported by substantial competent evidence; that motion also carried with six members in favor.
The board’s actions were procedural advisory determinations; the transcript records the board’s votes and procedural citations but does not record disciplinary sanctions or final administrative actions beyond the advisory recommendation.
