August 10, 2026 at 5:45 PM - Board Meeting

Description:  Recess to closed or executive session pursuant to Texas Government Code, 551.074 Personnel Matters: To deliberate the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee; or to hear a complaint or charge against an officer or employee; 

Description:  Meet the Mustangs

• CTE Coordinator- Jamie Louviere
• Communication Specialist- Allee Schumacher
• FHS Theater Director- A. Bain
• FEF Marketing & Events- Katie Fort
• BCBA- Alexis Greer
• SPED Evaluation & Compliance- Heidi Eberhardt
• FISD Future Therapy Dog- Elle Woods

Description: 

 During each meeting of the Board of Trustees, time is set-aside for those who desire to address the Board. Persons who wish to participate in this portion of the meeting shall sign up using the audience participation form and shall indicate the topic about which they wish to speak. No presentation shall exceed three minutes. Delegations of more than five persons may be asked to limit their presentations to allow for each person to represent their views.  The Board shall not deliberate on any item not included on the agenda during this portion of the meeting. The Board will listen to your comments and may ask clarifying questions. Should there be a speaker who has registered to speak to multiple topics, the Board President shall direct the speaker to consolidate his or her comments for which he or she has registered and the speaker shall be given a total of three minutes to make his or her consolidated comments.  The president may interrupt or terminate an individual’s statement when it is too lengthy, repetitive, or obscene.  Please sign up by presenting the form to the Secretary, Superintendent, or Board President prior to the audience participation portion of the meeting.

Description:  Approve the MOU for the 26-27 school year between FISD and SJCCD

Description:  26-27 CCISD MOU for DAEP

Description:  The FISD Travel Procedures for 2026-2027 are attached. In collaboration with Secondary Education and CTE, a Qualtrics Form has been created to streamline the travel approval process.  No other procedures have changed from prior year.

Description:  The District converted to Skyward financial and student software systems in January 2012.  Annually, we are billed license fees for the use of their products. For the 2026-2027 fiscal year, this amount is $134,001. The total amount represents an overall increase of $322, or 0.24%, over the prior year.  See the attached invoice for more details.

Description: 

Board Policy CH Local currently states "any single, budgeted purchase of goods or services that costs $100,000 or more, regardless of whether the goods or services are competitively purchased, shall require Board approval before a transaction may take place". Please see the attached listing as these vendors are anticipated to meet the requirements of the purchasing threshold.

Description:  Attached are the contract proposals for new employees for the 2026-2027 school year.

Description: 

The District received Official Notification of Local Revenue Level in Excess of Entitlement for School Year 2026-2027 on July 15, 2026.  This means TEA estimates the district's Tier One local share under the TEC, §48.256, will exceed the district's entitlement under TEC, §48.266(a)(1), less the district's distribution from the state available school fund, and/or the district's Tier Two local share described by the TEC, §48.266(a)(5)(B), will exceed the amount described by the TEC, §48.202(a-1)(2), for school year 2026-2027.

As established in the TEC, §48.269, determinations for districts subject to recapture are based on estimates of enrollment for school year 2026-2027 and estimated property values for tax year 2026.  Because the agency does not yet have final state certified property values for tax year 2026, the agency is using 2025 state certified property values increased by 3.60% in accordance with the 2026-2027 General Appropriations Act.

Under current law, a district with local revenue in excess of entitlement has 5 options available to reduce its revenue level under the TEC, Chapter 49.  Districts subject to reduction of local revenue in excess of entitlement have historically chosen option 3.  Option 3 is most advantageous to FISD because the District will not be required to hold an election (to approve the option chosen) or enter into contracts with other school districts.  More information about all 5 options can be found in the attached letter.

In summary, the purpose of this agreement is to comply with the TEC Chapter 49 requirements, Subchapters A and D, and to enable the district to reduce its local revenue level to a level not to exceed the level established under TEC,  §48.257 for the 2026-2027 school year.  The agreement allows the District to purchase attendance credits from the state for the 2026-2027 school year and to offset its cost of recapture against state aid under the provisions of Chapter 48 in the TEC.

The official notification letter from TEA, the agency's wealth calculations for FISD, and the Agreement are attached for your review.

Description: 

Delegate Assembly is where TASB members have a voice in the overall direction of the organization - from electing who will serve on the TASB Board to approving the education issues that will be included in the TASB Advocacy Agenda.
Each Board is represented by a delegate at the conference.

Description: 

As part of our District of Innovation (DOI) Plan, we will share the class size ratios for our K-4 classrooms monthly beginning in May.  The attached spreadsheet displays the projected student enrollment with a growth factor only applied between Kindergarten and 1st grade.  The teacher counts have been adjusted based on our staff plans for the 2026-27 school year.

We are currently enrolling new students for the 2026-27 school year.  The Total Student Column includes actively enrolled students as well as the student enrollments that are currently being processed.  Class Size ratios are calculated off this number.  Students who have completed the withdraw process have been removed. 

Description:  Amber Petree, CFO, will give a budget update on the preparation of the 2026-2027 budget and present the proposed budget worksheets to the board of trustees.