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Presenter reminds Savoy ISD trustees of Open Meetings Act, executive session confidentiality
Summary
During Nov. 13 training, presenter Kim Caston instructed trustees on Open Meetings Act obligations to hold public meetings and keep executive sessions confidential, urging predictable meeting procedures and the president/superintendent speaker sequence.
At the Nov. 13 Savoy ISD trustee training, presenter Kim Caston reviewed legal and procedural expectations under the Open Meetings Act, stressing that "Open Meeting Act—Conduct meetings in public Executive Session—must be confidential."
Caston walked trustees through recommended meeting flow: the president calls on the superintendent, and the superintendent directs employees (for example, principals) to give reports. She framed the legal requirement that publicly noticed meetings be open to the public while executive sessions — used for limited confidential matters — must be kept private.
The guidance was presented as part of broader Team of Eight governance training aimed at improving meeting predictability and board accountability. Board members were urged to avoid allowing individual agendas to dominate public meetings and to focus discussions on student outcomes and district priorities.
