December 9, 2024 at 6:30 PM - Regular Meeting

1. Call the Meeting to order: Establish a quorum, Moment of Silence

2. Pledge of Allegiance

3. Recognition of 2024 UIL All-State Journalism Staff 

4. Public Comments

The next items on the agenda is Public Comment and Public Audience, which is the time for members of the audience to address the Board of trustees through either public comment or public audience, if applicable.Before we begin, I will remind our audience members of the Board’s procedures for handling public comments. The public comment portion of our Regular Board meeting is available to members of the public who wish to address agenda and non-agenda item to be considered by the Board.

 

Anyone who wants to speak during public comment must sign up prior to the start of the meeting and list the agenda item or non-agenda subject they want to discuss. Each public comment speaker will be allowed a maximum of ___ minutes to address the Board. Any public testimony speaker who is speaking through a translator, will receive up to ___ minutes to address the Board.

 

The public addressing tonight’s agenda items allows all speakers who have signed up before the start of the meeting to address the Board regarding an item on tonight’s agenda.

 

Please keep your comments or criticisms civil and courteous. Please also avoid using profanity and refrain from making personal attacks on others during your opportunity to speak. Last, we ask that you not discuss students who are not your own child. Yelling, inappropriate, uncivil or discriminatory comments will not be permitted.

 

If you are speaking on items that are not on tonight’s agenda, then the following applies to those speakers. If a group of people want to be heard on the same topic, the Board asks that they designate a spokesperson to avoid needless repetition. The Board shall allot no more than 30 minutes for speakers on items not on tonight’s agenda. The Board has adopted rules to preclude the abuse of open forum by, for example, anyone uselessly repeating the same comment or complaint meeting after meeting.

 

All comments by persons speaking on either agenda or non agenda items will be limited to __ minutes per speaker.

 

I also caution you that your public comments should not complain about individual school employees by name or position or, other than your own child, identify

students, pursuant to Tex. Gov’t Code 551.074, 551.0821 and 551.082 As presiding officer, I am obligated to determine whether a person addressing the Board has attempted to administratively resolve any complaints or grievances about which they want to address the Board that involve District officers or employees. In the event your comment, in the judgment of the presiding officer, constitutes a complaint or charge against an employee or officer, it may be necessary for me to interrupt and ask you to stop and direct you to proceed with the school district’s formal grievance procedures or to have the item heard in Executive Session depending on the nature of the complaint.

 

If a speaker is seeking Board resolution of a specific complaint, that concern should be addressed through the District’s grievance process which can be found online and include Policies DGBA, FNG and GF. Grievance forms can be obtained at any campus administration office, or in the central administration offices.

Thank you

5. Statement of Officer

6. Oath of Office Administered to Appointed Trustee

7. Approval of Consent Agenda 
In order to promote efficient meetings, the Board may act upon more than one item by single vote through the use of the consent agenda.  Consent items shall be items placed on the Agenda for which no Board discussion is anticipated and for which the Superintendent recommends approval.  Prior to the meeting, at the request of any member of the Board of Trustees, any item on the consent agenda shall be removed and given individual consideration.  Requests for individual consideration are made prior to Board meetings and requests must be directed to either the Board President or the Superintendent.

7.A. Minutes

7.B. Monthly Financial Report

7.C. Budget Amendments and Expenditures Report

7.D. Tax Levy Adjustments and Collections Report

7.E. Consideration and possible action to approve the Memorandum of Agreement between ESC Region 1 and Lasara ISD for the Ascender Business Subscription for the 2024-2025 school year.  The cost of this program is $43,380.10

7.F. Possible Action on Attendance Incentive for School Employees

8. RESOLUTION APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF AN INVESTMENT AGREEMENT FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE LONE STAR INVESTMENT POOL, DESIGNATING THE POOL AS AN AGENCY AND INSTRUMENTALITY, APPOINTING NO LESS THAN TWO (2) AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES, AND DESIGNATING INVESTMENT OFFICERS

9. Superintendent's Report

9.A. Presentation on recent and upcoming parental involvement activity.

10. Closed Session or Meeting as authorized by Section 551.001 et seq of the Texas Government Code (The Open Meetings Act), under the following provisions:

Section 551.071 – Consultation with School Attorney on matters in which the duty of the Attorney to the Governmental Body under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas.

Section 551.072 – To deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property.

Section 551.074 – For the purpose of considering the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline or dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear complaints or charges against a public officer or employee.

10.A. Discussion on Hiring of Contracted Personnel

10.B. Discussion on the current status of the school guardian program

11. Open Session

11.A. Discussion and Possible Action on Hiring of Contracted Personnel

11.B. Discussion and possible action to update the current status of the school guardian program

12. Adjournment