Public Meeting Agenda: March 18, 2024 at 6:00 PM - Regular Meeting

1. PUBLIC FORUM

2. CONSENT AGENDA

2.a. Consider approval of financial statements, bank reconciliations, investment reports and tax collection report.

2.b. Consider approval of the minutes from previous meetings held on February 12 and 16, 2024.

3. ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS

3.a. Superintendent's Report - Clint Sadler

4. ACTION AGENDA

4.a. Consider and discuss EFB (LOCAL) as presented by TASB to be included in Update 123 in the Spring.

4.b. Consider and discuss District calendar for the 2024-2025 School Year as presented.

4.c. Consider and discuss contracts for teachers for the 2024-2025 school year, as presented by Mr. Sadler. (See attached list)

4.d. Consider and discuss the District of Innovation as presented by Mr. Sadler.

4.e. Consider and discuss proposals for home stands at the football stadium as presented by Derek Thomas.

4.f. Consider action on Senate Bill 763 regarding school chaplains.

Description:

By: Middleton	S.B. No. 763


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to allowing school districts to employ chaplains to
	perform the duties of school counselors.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 33.002, Education Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
	(d) Notwithstanding Subsections (b) and (c) or any other
	law, a school district may employ a chaplain instead of a school
	counselor to perform the duties required of a school counselor
	under this title. A chaplain employed under this subsection is not
	required to be certified by the State Board for Educator
	Certification.
	SECTION 2. Section 48.115(b), Education Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(b) Funds allocated under this section must be used to
	improve school safety and security, including costs associated
	with:
	(1) securing school facilities, including:
	(A) improvements to school infrastructure;
	(B) the use or installation of physical barriers;
	and
	(C) the purchase and maintenance of:
	(i) security cameras or other security
	equipment; and
	(ii) technology, including communications
	systems or devices, that facilitates communication and information
	sharing between students, school personnel, and first responders in
	an emergency;
	(2) providing security for the district, including:
	(A) employing school district peace officers,
	private security officers, and school marshals; and
	(B) collaborating with local law enforcement
	agencies, such as entering into a memorandum of understanding for
	the assignment of school resource officers to schools in the
	district;
	(3) school safety and security training and planning,
	including:
	(A) active shooter and emergency response
	training;
	(B) prevention and treatment programs relating
	to addressing adverse childhood experiences; and
	(C) the prevention, identification, and
	management of emergencies and threats, using evidence-based,
	effective prevention practices and including:
	(i) providing licensed counselors, social
	workers, chaplains, and individuals trained in restorative
	discipline and restorative justice practices;
	(ii) providing mental health personnel and
	support, including chaplains;
	(iii) providing behavioral health
	services, including hiring chaplains;
	(iv) establishing threat reporting
	systems; and
	(v) developing and implementing programs
	focused on restorative justice practices, culturally relevant
	instruction, and providing mental health support, including the
	utilization of chaplains; and
	(4) providing programs related to suicide prevention,
	intervention, and postvention, including the utilization of
	chaplains.
	SECTION 3. Each board of trustees of a school district and
	each governing body of an open-enrollment charter school shall take
	a record vote not later than six months after the effective date of
	this Act on whether to adopt a policy authorizing every campus of
	the district or school to hire a chaplain under Sections 33.002 and
	48.115, Education Code, as added by this Act.
	SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
	school year.
	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

5. Closed Session, As Authorized by the Texas Open Meeting Act, Government Code 551 and Board Policy BEC (LEGAL).

5.a. Personnel Matters Gov’t Code 551.074

5.b. Discuss and consider security matters.

6. Consider and take action regarding personnel matters as discussed in Closed Session

6.a. Personnel Matters Gov't Code 551.074

6.b. Security matters including Marshall program.

7. ADJOURN

March 18, 2024 at 6:00 PM - Regular Meeting

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