Maple School District board opens officer nominations, appoints CESA 12 representative and votes to enter closed session

The Maple School District Board convened its May 6 reorganizational meeting, opened nominations for board officers, recorded several routine appointments and voted to move into a closed executive session, the board said.

The presiding officer called the meeting to order and conducted roll call before the Pledge of Allegiance. The agenda had been posted across the district, published as a legal notice in the Superior Telegram, placed on the district website and sent to radio station WNXR, the presiding officer noted.

Nominations were opened for the offices of president, vice president, clerk and treasurer. Nominations for each office were solicited and then closed after no additional names were offered; the board moved forward with the reorganizational process without recorded opposition. The presiding officer acknowledged the outcome of the president nomination with a brief congratulatory remark.

The board considered routine appointments. When the board took up the appointment of its CESA 12 representative, a board member identified on the record as Jeremiah volunteered and indicated he would serve: "I'll do that," Jeremiah said. The board also discussed and recorded acceptance of a WB correspondent appointment and directed members to submit committee-selection forms to Mr. Jano that evening.

Before adjourning the open portion of the meeting, a motion and second were made to enter a closed executive session. The presiding officer cited Wisconsin statutes as the legal basis and listed areas to be discussed in closed session: administrative contracts, employee benefits and an expulsion hearing. The board conducted a roll-call affirmation and moved into closed session; the open meeting record shows the roll-call confirmations but does not provide a formal, complete vote tally in the transcript excerpt provided.

No substantive deliberations on the closed-session items were recorded in the open transcript. The board did not announce public outcomes for those matters at the time the meeting moved into closed session. The board packet includes committee-selection instructions to be returned to Mr. Jano.

Next steps: the board proceeded into closed session to address the personnel and contract matters announced; the public portion of the meeting ended without further public votes on those items.