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Bastrop ISD trustees approve routine items including election canvass, paying agent and teacher contracts
Summary
At its May 13 meeting the Bastrop ISD Board of Trustees adopted an order canvassing returns for the May 3 trustee election, approved a resolution naming UMB Bank as paying agent/registrar for district bonds, and authorized several teacher term and probationary contracts; all motions carried with routine voice votes.
The Bastrop Independent School District Board of Trustees on May 13 adopted an order canvassing the returns of the May 3, 2025 trustee election, approved a resolution designating UMB Bank N.A. as paying agent and registrar for certain outstanding district securities, and approved a set of term and probationary teacher contracts.
Board members moved and seconded each item and the presiding officer called voice votes. The board recorded each motion as carried; no roll-call tallies were provided in the meeting transcript.
Cassie Balderas, the district communications and marketing director, summarized the trustee election results, saying the packet before trustees included “the summary of all the results of our trustee election from May 3” and precinct-level county results (Cassie Balderas). Following that presentation a board member moved “to adopt the order canvassing returns of the 05/03/2025 BISD Board of Trustees election as presented,” the motion was seconded and the presiding officer announced the motion carried.
Later in the meeting Chief Financial Officer Mike White presented a resolution to designate UMB Bank N.A. as paying agent and registrar, explaining the role as “the middleman between when we make our bond payments in February and August and to apply them, to the bondholders” and that the recommendation followed “a frustrating experience with our current paying agent, Bank of New York Mellon” (Mike White). The board moved, seconded and approved the resolution by voice vote.
Director of Human Resources Diana Green presented a small group of additional term and probationary teacher contracts. A trustee moved to approve the contracts “as presented,” the motion was seconded and the board voted to approve.
The meeting also approved the consent agenda by voice vote; the transcript records the standard motion, second and voice vote but does not include individual roll-call vote records.
Votes at a glance - Adoption of order canvassing returns, May 3, 2025 trustee election — motion moved and seconded; outcome: approved (voice vote; tally not specified). - Resolution designating UMB Bank N.A. as paying agent/registrar for certain outstanding public securities — motion moved and seconded; outcome: approved (voice vote; tally not specified). - Approval of term and probationary contracts for teachers recommended by administration — motion moved and seconded; outcome: approved (voice vote; tally not specified).
Meeting materials summarized by staff and the board’s voice-vote approvals were the only formal recorded actions in the transcript; no roll-call tallies or named vote records appear in the audio transcript.
