There will be a special meeting of the Sioux City School Board on Monday afternoon that will be in closed fashion.
The meeting begins at 4 p.m. at the downtown school district headquarters, and the agenda shows the board members will immediately go into closed session.
The meeting notice cites it for evaluating a personnel issue, which is one of the topics in which Iowa code allows public bodies to discuss topics in a closed session.
That code section covers evaluating the professional competency of a person whose appointment, hiring, performance or discharge is being considered, so the closed session is used when necessary to prevent injury to that person’s reputation.
The need to add the special session came up three days ago,
The school board may or may not announce any actions once the closed session is ended.
*Additionally Iowa’s newest state senator was sworn in Monday at the Statehouse, as Democrat Catelin Drey, of Sioux City, took the oath of office.
Drey won a special election last month and flipped a Republican-held seat to Democratic control. That broke the GOP supermajority in the Iowa Senate.
Drey said she’s honored to officially become a state senator, and she says the oath of office is sacred.
“There is something very humbling about taking the official oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the State of Iowa at a moment when it feels like that has become increasingly difficult or increasingly controversial,” Drey said.
Senate Democratic Leader Janice Weiner says Drey’s win will give Democrats a bigger role in the state Senate.
Republicans will need at least some Democratic support to confirm the governor’s nominees to various state positions.
