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The Warsaw Community School Board's executive session scheduled for Monday is canceled.
It will be rescheduled at a later date yet to be determined.
Ron Yeiter, school board president, said the cancellation is because of a formality he needed to check out Thursday with the school board's legal counsel, Max Reed.
Reed was out of town Thursday, so in order to be legally safe on the issue, Yeiter canceled the Monday meeting.
At a special May 23 board meeting, board member Deb Wiggins made a motion directing Yeiter, Reed and legal counsel from the Indiana School Board Association to investigate and determine the board's options regarding the employment status of Superintendent Dr. Dave McGuire and to report all options to the board at an executive session June 6 at 5:30 p.m. in Reed's office.
Voting to approve Wiggins' motion was Gene England, Yeiter, Dan Robinson, Wiggins and Tammy Dalton. Opposed were Cathy Folk and Chuck Sauders.
Wiggins today said she made her motion to validate the written evaluation and allow the board to discuss the evaluation further if necessary.
McGuire's contract requires written evaluation of his performance by July 1. At the May 23 meeting, Wiggins said, "pursuant to contract addenda dated Sept. 20, 2004, to the contract between Warsaw Community Schools and Dr. David B. McGuire requiring written evaluation of the superintendent's performance by July 1, this board publicly announces that evaluation has been completed. The written evaluation was presented to the superintendent on May 11, 2005, by board president Ron Yeiter and board member Gene England."
Yeiter Thursday said common sense dictates there are limited options the board can take on McGuire's contract, which has about two years remaining on it.
The first is to leave the contract as it is. The second option is to terminate McGuire's contract and/or buy him out of the contract. Another option, which Yeiter said was an "outside" option, would be for the board to reassign McGuire to another position within the school corporation.
"Reassignment almost has to be a mutual decision," Yeiter said.
