IOWA CITY — The Iowa City school board could go into three closed meetings next week to “evaluate the professional competency” of staff amid months of probing financial shortfalls after school officials failed to accurately track monthly spending and revenue for almost three years.
The closed sessions are to immediately follow the school board meeting scheduled for 6 p.m. April 28, two weeks after the school board heard from its legal counsel regarding an Iowa Code section addressing superintendent and administrator contracts.
Kristy Latta, a lawyer at Ahlers & Cooney in Des Moines, which represents the Iowa City district, explained the code chapters 279.23 and 279.24, which outline ways for an administrator contract to be terminated or modified. That includes the employee resigning, a mutual decision by the employee and the school board to modify the contract or termination, she said…