This one seems to have come out of left field, but Legislative Research Council Director Reed Holwegner is out after a meeting of the Legislature’s Executive Board today:
Reed Holwegner tendered his resignation as the director of the Legislative Research Council during a meeting of the Executive Board. During the meeting, the 15-member board made up of senators and representatives suspended the board’s rules and went into executive session to discuss the resignation.
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It’s unclear why Holwegner resigned. Executive sessions are not open under public meeting laws for purposes of discussing employee issues or consulting with legal counsel.
This seems to have come out of the blue, but keep in mind this is the same LRC Director who acted like there was a “pestering” exception to open records requests during the Ravnsborg impeachment investigation.
So maybe it wasn’t quite out of the blue.
Update.. The Dakota Scout is suggesting the resignation arose because the director couldn’t keep employees there:
Legislative Research Council (LRC) Director Reed Holwegner has stepped down amid concerns about staff retention and office morale in the non-partisan office that provides year-round research, drafting, and support services for state lawmakers.
In my view the SD LRC has an impeccable reputation and it should be kept that way. As a member of the public who could have been ignored during an important phase in our home school, and during a very important phase in SD in general, I was very impressed. Regardless of who is flowing through the LRC, it must maintain a high bandwidth for communication and an understanding of its role as “shepherd” not “cattle driver”.
Nice guy. I hope they don’t put a dink in there.
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