The Sweet Home School Board will meet Monday, Sept. 29, in executive session to consider (a) complaint(s) against a public officer.
The agenda for the meeting, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in the board chambers, did not identify who the subject(s) of the complaints is/are. After the board meets, it must return to a public session to take action on the complaint. Members of the public who are not subject to exemptions are excluded from executive sessions, but can be present when the board announces any decisions made during closed session.
State law permits and executive (closed) session “to consider the dismissal or disciplining of, or to hear complaints or charges brought against, a public officer, employee, staff member or individual agent who does not request an open hearing.”
Oregon law defines a public officer as any elected official, appointed official, employee or an unpaid volunteer who holds a position or performs duties for a government body and who is subject to ethics and open meetings laws.
It is not entirely clear who the subject of the complaints to be addressed is, but board Chair Mike Adams told The New Era that he understood that three complaints have been filed against him since the board’s Sept. 8 meeting by fellow Board Member Mary Massey Speck, but he had not seen them. Massey complained in that meeting about Adams’ leadership during the board’s August meeting in which she was voted out as board secretary and then-Chair Floyd Neuschwander was also voted out, replaced by Adams.