Closed Session (Jan 22, 2026)

Summary

Procedural opening at 4:16 p.m. that devolves into a 5-minute Roberts-Rules tangle over Kelly's motion to move public comment to the start of the meeting. Sequence: 1. Item C in closed session is removed (not occurring). 2. Kelly moves to move final/public comment to the beginning of the meeting; Hills seconds. 3. Kelly's barbed framing: *"you might want to support this since uh you were heard at the end of the last meeting of saying something very negative about the public."* 4. Morgan responds: *"a little exchange as we do on the dais regularly, so it's fun that that was caught and misinterpreted."* 5. Repeated procedural confusion about the exact wording of the motion. Staff has to "rewind and get clarity on the motion that um member Kelly you made." 6. **Motion fails** (Aye / No / No — Hills appears to vote no despite seconding, leaving Kelly alone in favor). 7. Item 3C (student records challenge) removed by separate motion before agenda adoption.

Key insights (4)

• **Hills seconds Kelly's motion but then votes against it** — a notable pattern of seconding-for-discussion-then-opposing that recurs across the closed-session record.
• **Morgan acknowledges on-record an "exchange" with Kelly at the prior meeting** that "was caught and misinterpreted" — suggests the intra-board hostility is sustained (not isolated to specific incidents) and that Morgan is aware her affect is being recorded.
• **Process clarity intervention** by staff (likely Glass): *"on the administrative side, we didn't capture the motion correctly. Can we rewind and get clarity?"* — second meeting in a row showing procedural disarray on the dais.
• Closed-session items not read aloud after item C removal; only the procedural-only adjournment is captured.