Kingfisher school board members met with the district superintendent and an attorney for nearly 90 minutes during a Thursday special meeting.

The consultation was during an executive session, which began shortly after President Dana Golbek called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m.

According to the agenda, the executive session was “for the purpose of confidential communications between the Board of Education and its attorney(s) concerning pending litigation…the Board, being advised by its attorneys, determines that disclosure of such communications would seriously impair the ability of the Board to conduct a defense of litigation in the public interest.”

Kingfisher Public Schools, head football coach Jeff Myers, assistant coach Derek Patterson and former assistant coaches Micah Nall and Blake Eaton were named as defendants in a civil lawsuit filed July 29 in Kingfisher County District Court.

The suit alleges KHS coaches encouraged and utilized hazing as a form to “weed out” weaker, younger football players and was filed by a “John Doe No. 1.”

The plaintiff, now 18, is a 2021 KHS graduate, according to the lawsuit.

The board returned to open session at 9:58 a.m. and adjourned shortly after without taking any action.

Executive session discussions cannot be made public.

Joining Golbek and fellow board members Jim Perdue, Charles Walker and Carly Franks were KPS Superintendent Dr. Daniel Craig and attorney Matthew P. Cyran of the Rosenstein, Fist & Ringold firm of Tulsa.

According to its website, the firm represents Oklahoma school districts and other education-related entities in litigation-related education law services.