Board moves to issue final notice proposing termination of term contract employee

After reconvening from closed session on July 21, the Belton ISD Board of Trustees voted to accept the superintendent's recommendation to propose termination of a term contract employee. The board motion directed the superintendent to prepare a formal final notice of proposed contract termination for delivery to the employee, to include required timelines and procedures for requesting a hearing before an independent hearing examiner under the Texas Education Code. The motion also directed the board president to notify the district's legal counsel (Eichlbaum, Mordell, Hansen, Powell, and Munoz PC) and to attach the motion and the notice to the meeting minutes. The motion was read into the record and adopted by a 6'0to'0 vote; the public transcript identifies the employee as "Pietro Gastino" (variants of the name appeared in the full transcript). The board's action followed an executive session citing Texas Government Code sections for personnel and legal consultation. The motion instructs counsel to take necessary actions to support the proposed termination and to ensure the notice conforms to Texas Education Code hearing rights and timelines. The transcript records the motion and the vote but does not include the text of any termination notice or the underlying personnel recommendation; those documents are typically treated as confidential personnel records and follow the formal statutory notice schedule.