Freedom Public Schools board holds executive session on superintendent evaluation and personnel; compliance announcement on return to open session

The Freedom Public Schools Board of Education held an executive session to discuss the evaluation of Superintendent B. Burgess and personnel matters related to hiring, promotion, discipline or resignation of salaried officers, according to the meeting transcript.

The transcript records the board moved to an executive session described as "to discuss the evaluation of Mr. B. Burgess, Superintendent, in accordance with the provisions of SMA" and to consider employment, hiring, appointment, promotion, discipline or resignations of individual salaried officers. The recording contains garbled phrases around the statute reference; the article does not expand or correct that phrasing beyond what appears in the transcript.

The board returned to open session at 7:54 a.m., and an executive-session compliance announcement stated that no matters were discussed other than items listed on the agenda. The transcript names Frank Berry, Jill Kirkpatrick and Rita Burgess as those present when the board returned to open session. The transcript does not provide further detail about personnel deliberations that took place in the executive session.

Because executive sessions are closed under state law for certain personnel matters, the board did not disclose discussion content in the public record beyond the compliance announcement.