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Board votes to propose termination of employee Kinyatta Cooper after closed session
Summary
After a closed session the Livingston ISD Board voted 7-0 to propose termination of Kinyatta Cooper’s 2025–2026 probationary contract and directed the superintendent to provide notice as required by policy and law.
The Livingston Independent School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously Oct. 20 to propose termination of employee Kinyatta Cooper’s 2025–2026 probationary contract and directed Superintendent Dr. Jeff Pack to provide notice of the proposed termination in accordance with district policy and state law.
Kinyatta Cooper had spoken to the board during the citizen comment period regarding the item prior to the board’s closed-session deliberations. The board entered closed session at 7:03 p.m. under multiple Texas Government Code provisions listed in the minutes, then reconvened at 8:43 p.m. before taking the motion. The motion to propose termination was made by Kevin Grimm and seconded by Bea Ellis; the minutes record the vote as 7-0 (Aye: Andrew Boyce, Kevin Grimm, Steven Grimm, Bea Ellis, Megan Rowe, John Allen Slocomb, Scott Paske). The district minutes do not state the factual grounds for the proposal beyond the board’s notation of the statutory closed-session categories.
