Joaquin ISD Board of Trustees Regular Meeting Agenda

February 15, 2019 - The Board will hold a public hearing in accordance with Texas Education Code 39.053 to discuss the District’s educational performance on the Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR) during its’ regular  February 18th, 2019 board meeting at 6pm in the Joaquin Board Room.

Notice is hereby given that on the 18th day of February 2019 the Board of Trustees of the Joaquin School District will hold a regular meeting at 6:00 p.m., at the Joaquin Board Room, Joaquin, Texas.

The subjects to be discussed are listed on the agenda and are made a part of this Notice. 

If, during the course of the meeting covered by this Notice, the Board of Trustees should determine that a closed session of the Board of Trustees is required, then such closed session as authorized by the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code, Section 551.001 et seq., Texas Education Code, will be held by the School Board at the date, may conveniently meet in such closed session concerning any and all purposes permitted by the Act, including, but not limited to the following sections and purposes:

Agenda
1. Roll call, establishment of quorum, call to order
2. Invocation and Pledges of Allegiance
3. Audience Participation – Please, each participant is requested to limit his/her presentation to three to five minutes
4. Report/Information items:
4.1. Review Monthly Financial Reports – Joel Bumback
4.2. Texas Academic Performance Report and Hearing
4.3. Joaquin ISD campus Safety and Security Update
4.4. JISD Stipends
4.5. Report on who signed up to run for Board positions
4.6. Correspondence
5. Agenda Items for consider and possible action:
5.1. Minutes from previous month’s meeting
5.2. Student Transfer Agreement
5.3. Approve request for proposal for fiber communication subject to ERATE funding 
5.4. Recommendation to not appeal this case to the Texas Supreme Court – La Feria ISD, Joaquin ISD and The Equity Center v. Mike Morath, Commissioner of Education, and TEA
5.5. TASB Update 112
6. Enter Closed Session
6.1. Enter closed session under Texas Government Codes:
§551.071  An executive session will be held for the purpose of having private consultation with the Board’s attorney when the governmental body seeks the advice of its attorney about pending or contemplated litigation or a settlement offer, or on a matter in which the duty of counsel to his client, under the Code of Professional Responsibility of the State Bar of Texas clearly conflicts with the Act.
551.074  Deliberate the appointment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee; or to hear a complaint or charge against an officer or employee.
6.1.1. Resignation and Retirements
6.1.2. Principal contracts
6.1.3. Discuss Superintendent search
7. Return to Open Session - Agenda Items for consideration and possible action:
7.1. Resignation and Retirements
7.2. Principal contract
7.3. Superintendent search procedure
8. Recommendations for items to be placed on agenda for next Board meeting
9. Designation of date and time of next regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Joaquin ISD – March 25, 2019, at 6pm.
10. Adjournment

§551.071  An executive session will be held for the purpose of having private consultation with the Board’s attorney when the governmental body seeks the advice of its attorney about pending or contemplated litigation or a settlement offer, or on a matter in which the duty of counsel to his client, under the Code of Professional Responsibility of the State Bar of Texas clearly conflicts with the Act.

§551.072  Deliberation of the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property if deliberation in an open meeting would have a detrimental effect on the position of the governmental body in negotiations with a third person.  

§551.073 Deliberation of a negotiated contract for a prospective gift or donation to the governmental body if deliberation in an open meeting would have a detrimental effect on the position of the governmental body in negotiations with a third person.

§551.074   Deliberate the appointment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee; or to hear a complaint or charge against an officer or employee.

§551.076 Deliberate the deployment, or specific occasions for implementation, of security personnel or devices.

§551.082 Deliberate a case involving the discipline of public school child or complaint or charge brought against an employee of the School District by another employee and the complaint or charge directly results in a need for a hearing.

§551.0821 Deliberate a matter regarding a student or students where personally identifiable information about students will necessarily be revealed by the deliberation.

§551.083  Deliberate the standards, guidelines, terms or conditions the board will follow, or instruct its representatives to follow, in a consultation with a representative of an employee group.

§551.084   Exclusion of witness from hearing.

§551.127  A governmental body may use a video conference call to hold an open or closed meeting and a member or employee of a governmental body may participate remotely in a meeting of the governmental entity by means of a video conference call if that participation complies with the requirements and provisions of this section.

§551.129 A governmental body may use a telephone conference call, videoconference call, or communications over the Internet to conduct a public consultation with its attorney in an open meeting of the governmental body or a private consultation with its attorney in a closed meeting of the governmental body.

Education Code 39.030

39.030  Discuss or adopt individual assessment instruments or assessment instrument items.

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 session, then the final vote shall be either:

(a) in the open meeting covered by the Notice upon the reconvening of the public meeting; or

(b) at a subsequent public meeting of the School Board upon notice thereof; as the School Board shall determine.