April 15, 2014 at 6:00 PM - Regular

1. Announcement by the Board President calling this meeting of the Taft Independent School District to order. Let the record show that a quorum of Board Members is present, that this meeting has been duly called, and that notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551.

2. Invocation

3. Taft ISD Credo and Taft ISD Goals

4. Public Comments: Comments are limited to five minutes per speaker. The Board Secretary will be the timekeeper and will inform the speaker when they have one (1) remaining minute. Should there be more than five (5) people who wish to speak on a particular issue they need to select one (1) representative to speak for them. The presiding officer or designee shall determine whether a person who wishes to address the Board has attempted to solve the matter administratively. If not, the person shall be directed to the appropriate policy, as noted in BED (Local), to seek resolution before bringing the matter to the Board at a subsequent meeting. Pursuant to 551.042 of the Texas Government Code, no Board Member or Administrator may respond to a member of the public, unless such response is a recitation of District policy or a statement of specific factual information.

5. Construction Update

5.A. Taft High School

5.B. Taft Athletics

6. Consent Agenda

6.A. Approve Minutes of the Regular Meeting of March 18, 2014 and the Special Meeting of March 24, 2014

6.B. Approve Investment Report for March, 2014

6.C. Total Expenditures by Function Ending March, 2014

6.D. Child Nutrition

6.E. Summary of Taxes Paid to Taft ISD

6.F. Budget Amendments

7. Information Only

7.A. Capturing Kids Heart (CKH) Update - Monda Simmons

7.B. TASB Leadership Report        

7.C. Update on Taft Independent School District Daycare Services 

7.D. Information on the new Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR)

7.E. Special Education Report

7.F. Principal's Report

8. Items for Individual Consideration

8.A. Discuss and/or Approve a Resolution to Request Approval to Participate in the TRS-ActiveCare Health Plan

8.B. Discuss and/or Approve the White Fleet Operations Manual

8.C. Discuss and/or Approve Concession Stand Activity Assignments

8.D. Discuss and/or Approve Update 99

8.E. Discuss and/or Approve Changing the June 17, 2014, Regular Meeting to June 24, 2014, due to Most Administrators Attending the No Excuse University Conference in Dallas

9. Superintendent Report

9.A. City of Taft Town Hall Meeting April 24, 2014

10. Closed Session: Board will adjourn into closed session pursuant to the following sections of the Texas Open Meetings Act

10.A. The Board will convene in closed session as authorized by the Texas Government Code, Chapter 551. et. seq. TGC 551.071, 551.072, and 551.074

10.A.1. Consider Proposed Renewal and/or Nonrenewable of Term Contracts

10.A.2. Reorganization of Central Office Administrators and Staff Members

10.A.3. Employee Resignations

10.A.3.a. Julian Figueroa

11. Reconvened from Closed Session: The Board will take appropriate action on items, if necessary, as discussed in Closed Session

12. Future Board Agenda Items from Board Members

13. Adjourn