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Board approves calendar, TEA certification and several personnel and procurement actions

April 12, 2025 | LA JOYA ISD, School Districts, Texas


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Board approves calendar, TEA certification and several personnel and procurement actions
At the meeting’s action portion, the La Joya ISD board recorded votes on multiple agenda items. The motions and publicly announced outcomes were:

• Emergency responder communications enhancement system (CSP-2025-32): The board voted to rescind a prior action and approve a new award for the emergency responder communications enhancement system (agenda item 11.1). A board member moved to approve item 11.1, it was seconded, and the chair called the vote; the public transcript records "All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion carries."

• 2025–26 La Joya ISD school calendar (agenda item 11.2): A motion to approve item 11.2 passed with the vote recorded as "Aye" and the chair announcing the motion carries.

• Texas teacher evaluation and support system (T-TESS) certification (agenda item 11.3): The board moved and seconded approval; the vote was recorded as "Aye" and the motion carries. The item implements the district certification step related to educator evaluation and the broader Strong Foundations/TEA processes.

• Proposal of nonrenewal of Chapter 21 term contracts (agenda item 11.4): The board moved to propose nonrenewal of Chapter 21 term contracts for certified employees, including administrators at Zapata, Seguin and Garza elementary schools, citing programmatic changes affecting the campuses. The motion authorized the superintendent or designee to provide notices and to retain attorneys to represent the board in any resulting hearings. The board passed the motion (recorded as "Aye" and motion carries).

• Findings of fact and adoption of hearing examiner recommendations — Roxanna Pena (agenda item 11.5): After noting a recusal for the item, the board moved to adopt the independent hearing examiner’s findings of fact and conclusions of law in LA Jolla ISD v. Roxanna Pena (TA docket 052‑LHD‑12‑2024) and to terminate the term contract of Roxanna Pena effective immediately. The motion was seconded and recorded as passed with the public announcement "Aye" and "Motion carries."

• Findings of fact and adoption of hearing examiner recommendations — Jose Vasquez (agenda item 11.6): The board moved to adopt the independent hearing examiner’s findings and to terminate Jose Vasquez’s term contract effective immediately (TA docket 069‑LHD‑12‑2024). The motion was seconded and recorded as passed with the announcement "Aye" and "Motion carries."

• Consent agenda (earlier in the meeting): A motion to approve the consent agenda was moved, seconded and approved with the board announcement "Aye" and "Motion carries." The transcript does not list the consent agenda line items in the public excerpt; the board vote was recorded as in favor.

The public transcript logs the motions, seconds and the chair’s verbal tallies ("Aye") and statements that motions carried; no roll-call vote counts with member-by-member 'yes'/'no' strings were recorded in the portion of the transcript provided. Where individual board members recused or announced recusals, the transcript records those statements (for example, a recusal was noted before action on item 11.5).

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