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Sedan council holds repeated executive sessions to interview clerk candidates under K.S.A. 75-4319(b)(1)
Summary
The council repeatedly entered executive session May 27 to interview office-clerk candidates, citing K.S.A. 75-4319(b)(1) (personnel matters of nonelected personnel); no decisions were announced during those sessions.
During its May 27 special meeting, the Sedan City Council repeatedly moved into executive session under K.S.A. 75-4319(b)(1) to interview candidates for the office clerk position. Motions to enter executive session named the attendees for each session and were carried each time.
The minutes record multiple executive-session motions that listed Raven Darnall and Lana Smith and a rotating third interviewee: Sonya Redd (session ended 5:41 PM), Natalie Thorne (ended 5:52 PM), Kaylee Angell (ended 6:10 PM), Alexis Fecke (ended 6:26 PM), Laneta Bailey (ended 6:43 PM), Donita Buhler (session resumed 7:00 PM), and Brian Orender (exited 7:15 PM). Each resumption of the open meeting is recorded with the notation that "no decisions were made." The repeated use of the statute was recorded verbatim in the motions.
The council made no public action or announcement about hiring during those executive sessions; the final hiring vote took place later in open session.
