MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS
MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY
MARCH 21, 2018 4:43 P.M.
1. Roll Call
Present - Ms. Carrie Tergin, Chair
Ms. Amelia Counts, Governor (by conference phone)
Mr. Tyree Davis IV, Student Governor
Mr. Craig Frazier, Governor
Mr. Gabriel Gore, Vice Chair (by conference phone)
Ms. Beverly Miller, Governor
Mr. Kendall Seal, Governor (by conference phone)
Ms. Carol Silvey, Governor (by conference phone)
Mr. Gregory Spears, Governor (by conference phone)
Ms. Carrie Tergin, Governor
Also Present - Clifton Smart III, President
Donna Christian, Director of Internal Audit and Compliance
Ryan DeBoef, Chief of Staff and Assistant to the President for Governmental Relations
Rachael Dockery, General Counsel
Steve Foucart, Chief Financial Officer
Jeff Mitchell, Assistant General Counsel
Kyle Moats, Director of Athletics
Suzanne Shaw, Vice President for Marketing & Communications
Kristan Gochenauer, Secretary of the Board
2. Presiding – The presiding officer for the meeting was Ms. Carrie Tergin, Chair of the Board of Governors. She called the meeting to order at 4:43 p.m. in the Turner Family President’s Conference Room 203 in Carrington Hall on the campus of Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri.
3. Closed Meeting – It was determined that the Board of Governors needed to meet in a closed session to consider items of business provided in the Revised Statutes of Missouri. Ms. Tergin asked if a resolution authorizing a closed meeting of the Board was prepared. Thereupon, the following resolution was presented for consideration:
BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Governors for Missouri State University that a closed meeting with closed records and closed vote, be held during a recess of this March 21, 2018, special meeting of the Board of Governors to consider items of business pursuant to:
A. R.S.Mo. 610.021(3). “Hiring, firing, disciplining or promoting of particular employees by a public governmental body…”; and
B. R.S. Mo. 610.021(13). “Individually identifiable personnel records, performance ratings or records pertaining to employees or applicants for employment…;”
Ms. Virginia Fry moved the approval of the resolution and Mr. Craig Frazier seconded the motion.
A roll call vote on the motion was as follows: those voting in favor – Governors Counts, Frazier, Fry, Gore, Miller, Seal, Silvey, Spears, and Tergin; those voting against – none.
Ms. Tergin declared the resolution passed unanimously. The open meeting recessed at 4:45 p.m. to go into closed session.
The open meeting was reconvened at 5:29 p.m.
Date of Next Meeting – The date of the next regularly scheduled meeting is set for Thursday, May 17, 2018, at 1:00 p.m. on the Springfield Campus.
4. Adjournment – Ms. Tergin adjourned the meeting at 5:30 p.m., on the motion of Ms. Amelia Counts, the second of Mr. Frazier, and the unanimous vote of the Board.
Kristan Gochenauer
Secretary to the Board