Meeting Agenda
1. Call to Order
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Texas Pledge of Allegiance
4. Moment of Silence/Prayer
5. Welcome Citizens
6. Citizen Communication: At this time, the public is invited to address the Board of Trustees and speak on any matter not specifically listed for public hearing elsewhere in this agenda. Please note that trustees may not respond to comments or deliberate on topics if they are not included on this agenda.
7. Consent Agenda
7.a. Consider/ Approve Minutes from the Regular Board Meeting of August 26, 2025.
7.b. Consider/ Approve Financial Report of
7.c. Consider/ Review the Payment of Bills of
7.d. Consider/ Review the Payment of Credit Cards
8. Action Item/ Information: The Board of Trustees will discuss, consider, and take any action deemed necessary on items listed in this section, including the adoption of a minute order or a resolution. 
9. Consider/Approve Title VI Certification
10. Consider/Approve Certification of Compliance with Texas Senate Bill 12.
11. Consideration and/or action to approve Agreement for the Purchase of Attendance Credit and to delegate contractual authority to the Superintendent.  For the 2025-2026 school year, we delegate contractual authority to obligate the school district under Texas Education Code (TEC) 11.511 (c)(4) to the superintendent, solely for the purpose of obligating the district under TEC, 48.257 and TEC, Chapeter 49, Subchapters A and D, and the rules adopted by the commissioner of education as authorized under TEC, 49.006.  This included approval of the Agreement for the Purchase of Attendance Credit, the Agreement for the Purchase of Attendance Credit (Netting Chapter 48 Funding) of the Agreement for Purchace of Attendance Credit and Netting Chapter 48 Funding. 
12. Consider/Approve Public Funds Depositor Collateral Security Agreement
13. Consider/Approve - Student Handbook Changing Official Attendance Taking time from 9:10am to 9:20am.
14. Consider/Approve 2025-2026 Employee Handbook
15. Consider/Approve DEC-Compensation and Benefits: Leave and Absences
Local Leave - Accumulate without limit
 
16. Executive Session: If during the course of the meeting by this Notice, the Board of Trustees should determine that a closed session of the Board of Trustees is required, then such a Government Code Section 551.00 et seq., will be held by the School Board at the date, hour, and place given in this Notice or as soon after the commencement of the meeting covered by this Notice as the School Board may conveniently meet in such closed or executive meeting or session concerning and and all purposes permitted by the Act, including, but not limited to the following sections and purposes:  
16.a. TGC 551.071 Private consultation with the board's attorney
16.b. TGC 551.072 Discussing purchase, exchange, lease or value of real property
16.c. TGC 551.073 Discussing negotiated contracts for prospective gifts or donations
16.d. TGC 551.074 Discussing personnel or to hear complaints against personnel
16.e. TGC 551.075 To confer with employees of the School District to receive information or to ask questions
16.f. TGC 551.076 Consider the deployment, specific occasions for, or implantation of security personnel or devices
16.g. TGC 551.082 Considering dicipline of a public school child, or complaint or charge against personnel
16.h. TGC 551.083 Considering the standards, guidleines, terms, or conditions the board will follow, or eill instruct its representatives to follow, in consultation with representatives of employee group
16.i. TGC 551.084 Excluding wittness from a hearing
17. Should any final action, final decision, or final vote be required in the opinion of the School Board with regard to any matter considered in such closed or executive meeting of session, then the final decision, or final vote shall be either:
(a)  in the open meeting covered by the Notice up the reconvening of the public meeting; or
(b) at a subsequent public meeting of the School Board up notice thereof; as the School Board shall determine.
 
18. Adjournment
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Westhoff Independent School District

Notice of Regular School Board Meeting, September 18, 2025, 6:00 PM

Public Notice is hereby given that the Westhoff Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet for regular meeting on Thursday, September 18, 2025, beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the Westhoff ISD district offices, 244 Lynch Ave., Westhoff, Texas. The following items may be deliberated at the meeting:
Meeting: September 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM - Regular School Board Meeting
Subject:
1. Call to Order
Subject:
2. Pledge of Allegiance
Subject:
3. Texas Pledge of Allegiance
Subject:
4. Moment of Silence/Prayer
Subject:
5. Welcome Citizens
Subject:
6. Citizen Communication: At this time, the public is invited to address the Board of Trustees and speak on any matter not specifically listed for public hearing elsewhere in this agenda. Please note that trustees may not respond to comments or deliberate on topics if they are not included on this agenda.
Subject:
7. Consent Agenda
Subject:
7.a. Consider/ Approve Minutes from the Regular Board Meeting of August 26, 2025.
Attachments:
Subject:
7.b. Consider/ Approve Financial Report of
Attachments:
Subject:
7.c. Consider/ Review the Payment of Bills of
Attachments:
Subject:
7.d. Consider/ Review the Payment of Credit Cards
Attachments:
Subject:
8. Action Item/ Information: The Board of Trustees will discuss, consider, and take any action deemed necessary on items listed in this section, including the adoption of a minute order or a resolution. 
Subject:
9. Consider/Approve Title VI Certification
Attachments:
Subject:
10. Consider/Approve Certification of Compliance with Texas Senate Bill 12.
Attachments:
Subject:
11. Consideration and/or action to approve Agreement for the Purchase of Attendance Credit and to delegate contractual authority to the Superintendent.  For the 2025-2026 school year, we delegate contractual authority to obligate the school district under Texas Education Code (TEC) 11.511 (c)(4) to the superintendent, solely for the purpose of obligating the district under TEC, 48.257 and TEC, Chapeter 49, Subchapters A and D, and the rules adopted by the commissioner of education as authorized under TEC, 49.006.  This included approval of the Agreement for the Purchase of Attendance Credit, the Agreement for the Purchase of Attendance Credit (Netting Chapter 48 Funding) of the Agreement for Purchace of Attendance Credit and Netting Chapter 48 Funding. 
Subject:
12. Consider/Approve Public Funds Depositor Collateral Security Agreement
Attachments:
Subject:
13. Consider/Approve - Student Handbook Changing Official Attendance Taking time from 9:10am to 9:20am.
Subject:
14. Consider/Approve 2025-2026 Employee Handbook
Attachments:
Subject:
15. Consider/Approve DEC-Compensation and Benefits: Leave and Absences
Local Leave - Accumulate without limit
 
Attachments:
Subject:
16. Executive Session: If during the course of the meeting by this Notice, the Board of Trustees should determine that a closed session of the Board of Trustees is required, then such a Government Code Section 551.00 et seq., will be held by the School Board at the date, hour, and place given in this Notice or as soon after the commencement of the meeting covered by this Notice as the School Board may conveniently meet in such closed or executive meeting or session concerning and and all purposes permitted by the Act, including, but not limited to the following sections and purposes:  
Subject:
16.a. TGC 551.071 Private consultation with the board's attorney
Subject:
16.b. TGC 551.072 Discussing purchase, exchange, lease or value of real property
Subject:
16.c. TGC 551.073 Discussing negotiated contracts for prospective gifts or donations
Subject:
16.d. TGC 551.074 Discussing personnel or to hear complaints against personnel
Subject:
16.e. TGC 551.075 To confer with employees of the School District to receive information or to ask questions
Subject:
16.f. TGC 551.076 Consider the deployment, specific occasions for, or implantation of security personnel or devices
Subject:
16.g. TGC 551.082 Considering dicipline of a public school child, or complaint or charge against personnel
Subject:
16.h. TGC 551.083 Considering the standards, guidleines, terms, or conditions the board will follow, or eill instruct its representatives to follow, in consultation with representatives of employee group
Subject:
16.i. TGC 551.084 Excluding wittness from a hearing
Subject:
17. Should any final action, final decision, or final vote be required in the opinion of the School Board with regard to any matter considered in such closed or executive meeting of session, then the final decision, or final vote shall be either:
(a)  in the open meeting covered by the Notice up the reconvening of the public meeting; or
(b) at a subsequent public meeting of the School Board up notice thereof; as the School Board shall determine.
 
Subject:
18. Adjournment

 

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Darrin J. Stansberry, Superintendent                        

Notes: 

A quorum of the board of trustees will be present at 244 Lynch Ave., Westhoff, Texas (the "Board Room”), and the district intends to have a quorum present at that location. The Chair of the meeting will be present at the Board Room, and that location will be open to the public. Other Trustees may participate in this meeting by video conference, so long as their face is visible, and their voice audible to members of the public in attendance at the Board Room while that member is speaking. 

Regardless of the agenda heading under which any item is listed, any subject mentioned in any word or phrase of any item listed on this agenda may be deliberated by The Board of Trustees, and such words or phrases are hereby added as additional subjects to be considered. Any descriptions of property or amounts stated herein are descriptive and not restrictive, and property and amounts may be changed in the motions, actions, or documents without further public notice. 

Any item on this agenda may be discussed in executive session if authorized by Texas law regardless of whether it is listed under "Executive Sessions" of this agenda, regardless of any past or current practice of the Board Trustees. Executive sessions herein are closed meetings, and may include consideration of any item otherwise listed on the agenda, plus any subject specified in the executive session notice, and may include items under Texas Government Code Sections 551.071, 551.072, 551.073, 551.074, 551.076, 551.084, and/or 551.087. Executive sessions may be held at 244 Lynch Ave., Westhoff, Texas or such other location as determined by the Board of Trustees. This agenda has been reviewed and approved by the attorney for the Board of Trustees, and the presence of any subject in the Executive Session portion of this agenda constitutes a written interpretation of Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code by the attorney for the governmental body indicating that said subject may be legally discussed in a closed meeting.  

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