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Board holds executive session on legal and personnel matters, approves superintendent personnel reports after return
Summary
The board convened an executive session at 6:26 PM under 25 O.S. § 307 to discuss confidential legal communications and superintendent personnel matters, returned at 7:25 PM with a statement that no votes were taken in executive session, and subsequently approved the superintendent's personnel reports by recorded vote.
The Board of Education convened into executive session at 6:26 PM on May 11, 2026 to receive confidential communications with legal counsel and to consider superintendent personnel matters under Oklahoma law (25 O.S. § 307(B)(4) and 25 O.S. § 307(B)(1)). The motion to convene was made by Casey White and seconded by Mandy Hillhouse; the minutes record the vote as Yes: 6, No: 0, Absent: 1.
The minutes record that the board returned to open session at 7:25 PM and include a president's statement of the executive session minutes listing the board members present in executive session (Clif Harden, Jeanne Swinney, Mandy Hillhouse, Kristen Wilson, Casey White, Russ Oliver), Superintendent Dr. Jason James and attorney Laura Holmes (via Zoom), followed by the sentence: "No votes were taken and no other matters were discussed in Executive Session." That statement appears in the public minutes as the board's formal record of the executive session.
After returning to open session the board approved the Superintendent's Personnel Reports (Exhibit A and Exhibit B presented under separate cover). The motion to approve the personnel reports was made by Jeanne Swinney and seconded by Russ Oliver; the minutes record the vote as Yes: 6, No: 0, Absent: 1. The minutes do not list the personnel actions or names contained in the exhibits within the public text; those exhibits were noted as presented under separate cover.
