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Pendleton board met in executive session under ORS 192.660(2)(a) to consider employment
Summary
The Pendleton School District 16R Board convened an executive session March 10, 2025 under ORS 192.660(2)(a) to consider employment matters; the session ran from 2:02 p.m., recessed for dinner, reconvened, and ended before the board resumed public session and took action authorizing negotiations.
The Pendleton School District 16R Board of Directors met in executive session on March 10, 2025 under ORS 192.660(2)(a), which allows consideration of employment matters in private. The board called the executive session to order at 2:02 p.m.; the minutes record the session recessed at 5:11 p.m. for dinner, reconvened at 5:43 p.m., and ended at 7:18 p.m. The public session resumed at 7:20 p.m.
Following the executive session, the board took public action: Director Mason Murphy moved that the executive team begin negotiations with a preferred candidate (if declined, with an alternate), a motion seconded by Director Anne Keeler and recorded as "carried unanimously." The minutes do not disclose the candidate’s name, the position title, or contract specifics.
The minutes list seven board members in attendance, plus the executive secretary and a consultant. No public comments were recorded and the meeting adjourned at 7:21 p.m. The record in these minutes focuses on the procedural use of executive-session authority and the subsequent authorization to negotiate; it does not include details of the employment discussion held in closed session.
