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Blue Ridge ISD board meets in closed session to interview superintendent candidates
Summary
The Blue Ridge ISD board met in a special session April 21, 2026, entering closed session under Texas Government Code §551.074 to interview candidates for superintendent. The board reconvened and adjourned at 8:56 p.m. after a unanimous vote to close the meeting.
The Blue Ridge ISD board convened a special meeting Tuesday, April 21, 2026, at 5:30 p.m. at the district administration office in Blue Ridge and entered closed session at 5:31 p.m. under the Texas Open Meetings Act (Policy BE) for personnel matters, citing Texas Government Code §551.074 to conduct interviews of superintendent candidates.
The board reconvened from executive session at 8:54 p.m. The transcript does not record any public hiring decision or formal appointment taken at the meeting. Board member Matt Grier moved to adjourn at 8:56 p.m.; the motion was seconded by board member Kevin Dauster and passed unanimously. "I move to Adjourn the meeting at 8:56 pm," Matt Grier said. The vote recorded all seven listed members as 'Yea': Jenna Capps; Scott Cessna; Kevin Dauster; John Gaulden; Matt Grier; Gary Lillard; Lonnie Murphy.
The meeting notice cites Policy BE and the board's reliance on the statutory personnel exemption for closed deliberations; no additional public details about the interviews or candidate names were recorded in the publicly available transcript. Any further board action on the superintendent search was not documented in this session's public record included in the transcript.
