Personnel action possible at Fayette school board’s upcoming meeting on superintendent

The Fayette County Public Schools board will conduct discussions that may lead to personnel action at its March 4 special meeting about Superintendent Demetrus Liggins.

That notation was included in an agenda district officials included in an email Friday night.

The agenda says the board will meet in closed session to conduct discussions that may lead to personnel action of an individual employee. The board will reconvene in open session to take possible action, the agenda states. A Fayette school board member confirmed Wednesday that the special meeting called for next week is to discuss an investigation that found multiple policy violations by Liggins amid district budget issues.

Earlier this month, an attorney hired by the Fayette County Board of Education to investigate Liggins’ role in tending to district finances found he failed to comply with two policy obligations. The investigation also found Liggins failed to follow board governance while the district faced a budget crisis.

The school board met in closed session for nearly two hours Monday, then emerged to say a special meeting had been called for next week. Officials previously declined to say what the special meeting would be about or what Monday’s closed session was about.

“A special meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 4, at 5:30 PM to continue discussion of next steps related to the independent investigation report released February 9 by Leigh Latherow of VanAntwerp Attorneys, LLP, as referenced in the Board Chair’s statement at the time of the report’s release,” Monica Mundy told the Herald-Leader Wednesday morning.

Liggins has been superintendent since 2021.