Personnel report approved after board debate over baseball coach replacement

Speaker 1 moved and the body approved a personnel action report during a brief but pointed exchange over how the district should fill duties for the middle‑school baseball program. The matter drew extended comments from Speaker 2, who said they had been contacted by a community volunteer already assisting the team and wanted transparency about whether that volunteer could keep practices going. "I never once said you should hire this person," Speaker 2 told the meeting, adding they had only asked questions about the process and advocated for continuity for students.

Speaker 3, responding on behalf of district administration, said the district could not make exceptions to hiring procedures and described the required steps for a formal appointment: posting the job, forming an interview committee and completing background and fingerprint checks. "We cannot make exceptions to our process and our procedures based on who the candidate is," Speaker 3 said, noting those checks typically take about a month and that, by then, the season would likely be over. To keep the season moving, Speaker 3 said the district planned to have a district employee — the newly hired counselor — cover coaching duties temporarily, and that any community volunteer could still apply when the position is formally posted.

After that exchange, Speaker 1 moved to approve the personnel report and a second was recorded. During the voice vote, Speaker 2 indicated they had not voted when asked; the motion was tallied as "3 to 1," and the motion carried. The transcript records the board approving the personnel report as its sole action item for the meeting.

The board did not record or publish additional details about the volunteer candidate's name, the formal posting timeline, nor an explicit assignment of follow‑up tasks in the transcript. The record does show that the district emphasized adherence to its standard hiring procedures and that the counselor would perform coaching duties on an interim basis while the formal process proceeds.