001Good morning. In compliance with the Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551, I call this meeting of the Mayor Independent uh School District to order on May 17, 2025 at 10:31 a.m. Let the record show that a quorum is present. This meeting has been duly called and notices of this meeting have been posted in accordance with the open meetings act. Do you does do you guys have any questions that you want to go into close session or no? All right. So if we don't have any questions we can already move to number five a well action item. There's no public forum. Nope. Okay. Action item number five, consideration of pro um proposed consideration of proposed non-renewal of a teacher coach. Do I have a motion? Madame President, I move to propose non-renewal of the
002employment contract of Kevin Collins and to authorize the superintendent to provide written notice of this action. I have a motion by Trusty Patterson. Do I have a second. Uh, Trustee Lowry. If those no if there is no further discussion, uh, I will take a vote. All those in favor say I or raise your hand. I All right. It passes unanimously. Uh, 5 Z and um, we have a note of 10:32 that trustee um, Howard. Wonderful. All right. Now, all I'm gonna ask is uh someone to make a motion to adjurnn. If you guys want to adjurnn question, of course. Go ahead. So, your policy allows that we we deliver the the notice to the employee and then he has a right to request a hearing before the board before you make a final decision. Um,
003your policy says that the board may set a reasonable time limit for this action. In the past, we've the board has believed that an hour for the administration to present its case because it's it's like a courtroom where you have to you have to present the case, question and answer evidence, things like that, and then the at the u the teacher would have an hour to present his case. Uh, and that is pretty standard. uh if we don't set a time limit, they can go these things can go six and a half, seven hours. So, I'd like to be able to tell the opposing council if we get a hearing request that we're going to limit their presentation time to one hour, but I didn't want to do that without at least getting you don't
004have to vote on that. But unless there's any objection, I'm I'm seeing all my board not if there's any discussion. No objection. simply say based on the hearings that we've been a part of in the past that's consistent with what we've experienced. Yeah. Oftentimes like for a grievance appeal we would only give maybe 15 minutes but this is different in that it's it's a statutory hearing uh for contract non-renewal and u we either have to tape record it or make a have a court reporter and then the transcript goes to the commissioner. So, it's a little more formal than like a grievance hearing and it's likely that we may have to, you know, have a another special board meeting to conduct it, you know, maybe in June. So, so you're saying a two-hour meeting for
005this? Uh, can what is the what is the policy of or the law about um the time limit he has to respond to today's action? Um, I think it's 15 days. 15 days. Okay. Yeah. And then is there uh a policy that we have to set that meeting after those 15 days? Is there a time period? Yes, there is. But there's also an exception to where the parties agree to a date. So, usually we set a date or offer a date and their lawyer say, "Well, I can't do it that day." And then, right, we do it by agreement. So, it's almost always done by agreement on a certain date. But I don't want to get in a situation where it it continues on until summer, you know. No, I I think um certainly we
006would want it to be finished, but but yeah, it's supposed to be wrapped up pretty much in 30 days unless the parties agree to a date outside that timeline. Okay. All right. All right. Sounds good. Do we need to vote on that? Oh, no. No. just so um I guess we're good. So, um I Madame President, I move to adjourn the meeting. Yes, I have a a motion by Trustee Lowry to adjourn the meeting at um 5 10:36. Second from Trusty Patterson. All in favor? 50. We adjourned at 10:36 a.m. Okay. Record-breaking meeting.