IC ISD Board April 27 2026
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Agenda Analysis | Meeting Review | Meeting Documents | Commentary | Last Meeting
A. Agenda Analysis
Interim Supt., items 3 and 4: By law, a school district cannot go without a superintendent at the helm. There is also a waiting period of 21 days once an offer is made to a candidate for superintendent. So, items 3 and 4 acknowledge: Supt. Moore is leaving (on April 30), an interim will be named, and that interim will need hiring authority (presumably to hire teachers and staff). The interim will not be hiring the new superintendent. The authority to hire a superintendent rests with the Board.
Closed session and action from closed session, items 5 and 7: This is the identical language for each of the previous meetings during the process of hiring a superintendent. I know from attending the open part of the meetings once the Board began the process that they want to hire in April for a starting date 21 days later in May. If so, maybe this is the meeting the Board names its lone finalist. At the time of this posting, however, the Board is still conducting interviews. So, if none of the candidates were to their liking, this agenda is written broadly enough that they could continue to interview.
I prefer to not read the tea leaves when it comes to board action on hiring the executive. In a general counsel capacity as an Assistant Attorney General, I’ve been on the inside of quite a number of state agency executive sessions when the agency board was hiring an executive director. It is an agonizing and thankless process for agency board members, and I’m sure it’s the same for school board members. No one knows for sure how it will turn out. Remember, they don’t get paid for any of this. (Though there are a number of Indirect benefits!) And, the superintendent contracts are somewhat illusory - in practice, superintendents jump ship all the time without contractual consequences. (Dr. Moore has 4 years left on her contract, and she is leaving a board that appears to be quite approving of her performance.)
As of the date of posting, there are 96 vacancies in Texas for superintendent positions. Check out TexasISD.com.
B. Meeting Review
Pending
C. Commentary
I have mentioned before in these pages my theory that one reason for Mertzon’s localized flooding problem is a decades if not century long practice of IC ISD taking out the native Oaks and replacing them with impervious cover - concrete. Consider this article about the practice of using green space to control flooding: Taking on water. The future of flood control is looking less like a wall and more like a park. Using green space to control flooding is not at all a novel concept, though it is apparently foreign to companies like Parkhill and Gallagher who design and construct school properties. In time they too will disappear from our community, like Jeff Potter Architects and WBK Construction did before them, never to witness a rainfall on their completed work.
Pending.
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