Board botches attempt to fix 9/13/22 Minutes

At the October 11, 2022 board meeting the board attempted to fix the Minutes of the September 13th meeting. That was the meeting where a Motion to reward the superintendent with an evaluation and contract extension ended with a sentence to "conclude" his employment contract.

The Motion on September 13th was adopted 4-3, but the Minutes did not report it correctly in the Agenda for the September 25th board meeting. The Minutes for the September 13th Minutes omitted the part about firing Supt. Davis.

Amelia McKie introduced a Motion last night (October 11). Not a woman of a few words, the board chair didn't even understand what she said or meant.

You can witness the fiasco at 1:42:20 on last night's recording, which you'll find at https://livestream.com/richland2/events/10641431/videos/233280827

Item 9.1 was on the agenda as "Clarification Regarding September 13, 2022 Board Meeting Minutes." The title of the item was their first mistake. You can't fix an error by "clarifying" it.

When Chair Manning asked for a Motion and recognized McKie, instead of making the requested Motion, she launched into "a question". How many times has the need for a Parliamentarian come up???...

She said a question had been raised about a scrivener's error" ...  It was not a scrivener's error! McKie lied in her statement to the board last night. The error was the Board's vote on a written motion that differed from the oral motion.

The Board voted on the Motion that was displayed to them on the screen. The maker (Holmes) of the Motion didn't read it carefully. No one on the board read it carefully. The superintendent did not read it carefully.

The Board voted to conclude the superintendent's employment contract. The vote was on the written motion, not the oral motion. The written motion is the official motion that was adopted by the Board on September 13, 2022.

The harder McKie tried to "clarify", the worse it got. Her motion last night should have been first to acknowledge the error in the Board's vote and to correct the wording in the September 13th Minutes. Then the board should have addressed how to correct it. 

The board needed legal advice and apparently did not get it.

The Minutes of the September 13th meeting are still wrong. Those Minutes should be corrected to include the "scrivener's error", because the Board voted on the motion that included that error.

The next step is to correct the error.

Last night the board (majority) voted 4-2-1 to obscure the lawful and correct record of action on September 13, 2022. 

Count one more complaint to the S.C. State Inspector General.