March 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM - Regular Meeting

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

2. Pledge of Allegiance

3. 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

4. Student Awards and Presentations

4.A. Participants and winners from the 2026 Elementary & Middle School UIL Meet on February 19 & 21 in San Isidro.

4.B. Participants and winners from the 2026 Willacy County Livestock Show and the 2026 San Antonio Livestock Show.

4.C. Recognition of the 2025-2026 Boys Basketball and Girls Basketball All-District Selections

4.D. Student presentation on the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program (VITA)

5. 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.

5.A. Minutes

5.B. Monthly Financial Report

5.C. Budget Amendments and Expenditures Report

5.D. Tax Levy Adjustments and Collections Report

5.E. Monthly Grant Expenditures

5.F. Approval of the 2026-2027 Certification of Provision of Instructional Materials

6. Board Members Participate in the Region One ESC Board of Directors Election for Place 2 & Place 5

7. Discussion, consideration, and possible action to adopt  Education Service Center Region 19 Allied State Cooperative interlocal Agreement Resolution. 

8. Consideration and possible action to award contract for 
Insurance Broker of Record to Robinson Brokerage Firm for the following products: 
Medical and Third Party Administration Benefits 

9. Discussion and Possible Action to approve the purchase of Library Books for Students

10. Discussion, consideration, and possible action to e-rate proposed project for 2026-2027 school year

11. Discussion, consideration, and possible action on the 2026-2027 school year calendar

12. Discussion, consideration, and possible action to approve Targeted Improvement Plan (TIP)

13. Superintendent's Report

13.A. Campus results on the most recent benchmark tests and action plan to address student performance. 

13.B. Discussion on the status of the afterschool program as it currently stands.

13.C. Discussion on competitive grant awards for Lasara ISD and supplemental pay

14. 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.

Section 551.0821—For the purpose to discuss student records that contains personally identifiable student information
 

14.A. Discussion on Hiring of Contracted Personnel

14.B. Discussion regarding 2026 graduation candidates and early graduation candidates as it pertains to school board policy EIC(LOCAL). 

14.C. Discussion  and consideration on hiring of Project Get Fit (Afterschool Program) employee

14.D. Discussion and consideration on hiring of food service employee

14.E. Discussion and consideration on hiring new employee(s) for the substitute teacher pool

15. Open Session

15.A. Discussion and possible action on hiring of Contracted Personel

15.B. Discussion, consideration, and possible action regarding 2026 graduation candidates and early graduation candidates as it pertains to school board policy EIC(LOCAL). 

15.C. Discussion, consideration, and possible action on hiring of new food service employee

15.D. Discussion, consideration, and possible action on hiring of Project Get Fit (Afterschool Program) employee

15.E. Discussion, consideration, and possible action on hiring new employee(s) for the substitute teacher pool

16. Adjournment