Miami County Commissioners recess to interview county administrator candidate in executive session

At a special meeting Wednesday, Sept. 23, the Miami County Commissioners voted to recess into an executive session to interview "candidate C" for the position of county administrator, invoking KSA 75-4319(b) to discuss non‑elected personnel matters and to protect applicants' privacy.

The Chair moved "I will move that the board recess into executive session to interview candidate C for the position of county administrator pursuant to KSA 75 dash 43 19 b for personal matters of non elected personnel exception in order to protect the privacy inputs, interests of the applicants." The motion was seconded; the Chair listed those to be present during the closed session as the five county commissioners, County Administrator Shane Crowell, Commissioner Jamie Rainey, Commissioner‑elect Jacob Vickery, Human Resources Director Sarah Denning, Assistant Human Resources Director Bella Riddell and candidate C. The Chair set the resumption time for two hours later "at 10:20." The board voted unanimously to approve the recess; the Chair declared "unanimous approval."

The record shows the board returned from executive session and the Chair announced, "We're back from my executive session with, no results to come out of that." The meeting was then adjourned at 10:21.

The session cited KSA 75-4319(b), the Kansas statute that permits governing bodies to close meetings for certain personnel matters. The commission's public record contains no further action or public announcement from the executive session in the transcript provided.