A closed session items. Please raise your hand for our virtual participants if you care to give a Public Comment on any of the closed session items. Seeing no hands raised. Okay. I now recess this meeting at 502. As we go to closed session. 6 40 p. M. And we will start with a vote on student expulsion matters. C1 i move approval of the stipulated expulsion agreement of one middle School Student matter number 20232024. Number five from the district for the remainder of the fall. 2023 semester and suspended enforcement for the spring 2024 semester. Can i have a second . Second if we could have a roll call vote, please. Thank you. Commissioner alexander. Yes commissioner fisher . Yes commissioner lamb. Yes commissioner montgomery. Yes mr. Sanchez. Vice president wiseman. Ward. Yes. President boggess. Yes. Success thank you. And now i continue with a report from closed session in three matters of anticipated litigation, the board voted by a vote of six yeses, with one commissioner absent.
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