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Votes at a glance: March 4, 2025 Spring ISD board work session
Summary
At the March 4 work session the Spring ISD board took several formal actions including personnel termination, teaching permit approvals, easement grants and authorization to negotiate property purchase.
Key formal actions taken by the Spring Independent School District board during its March 4 work session (work session reconvened after closed session). The items below reflect motions recorded in the meeting minutes and the outcomes as announced on the transcript.
1) Termination of a probationary teacher contract - Motion: Terminate the 2024–25 probationary employment contract with Patricia Greenleaf, teacher at Ikenrow Elementary, effective immediately for good cause and authorize superintendent to notify the employee and SBEC. - Mover: Trustee Correa - Second: Trustee Newhouse - Outcome: Approved unanimously (motion carries unanimously, per transcript) - Notes: Motion followed executive‑session discussion and directs administrative notification and reporting to SBEC.
2) Temporary teaching permits (CTE non‑core) - Motion: Approve superintendent recommendation to authorize and issue district teaching permits for named individuals in the designated non‑core academic CTE course (Justin Shepherd and Charles Parker Jr., Media Technology). - Mover: Trustee Newhouse - Second: Trustee Adams - Outcome: Approved unanimously (motion carries unanimously, per transcript) - Notes: Action authorizes district teaching permits for specified non‑core CTE courses; superintendent to execute paperwork.
3) Easements on Bailey Middle School property (Blue Slate Developments) - Motion A (drainage easement): Enter into an agreement granting Blue Slate Developments a 10‑foot drainage easement on Bailey Middle School property and authorize the superintendent to negotiate and execute the agreement. - Mover: Trustee Correa - Second: Trustee Adams - Outcome: Approved, 5–1 (motion carries 5 to 1, per transcript)
- Motion B (field transition easement): Enter into an agreement granting Blue Slate Developments a 14‑foot field transition easement on Bailey Middle School property and authorize the superintendent to negotiate and execute the agreement. - Mover: Trustee Correa - Second: Trustee Newhouse - Outcome: Approved, 5–1 (motion carries 5 to 1, per transcript)
4) Real property purchase authorization - Motion: Authorize the superintendent and designee to take all action necessary to negotiate and execute an offer for the purchase of real property, including negotiation and execution of related professional services contracts, as discussed in closed session. - Mover: Trustee Newhouse - Second: Trustee Jensen - Outcome: Approved unanimously (motion carries unanimously, per transcript) - Notes: Details of the property and negotiation authority were discussed in closed session; board authorized superintendent to proceed.
Process and vote records: The transcript records the motions, who moved and seconded them, and the chair’s announcement of outcomes. The record does not contain a roll‑call listing of how each trustee voted; several outcomes were announced as unanimous or recorded as a 5–1 tally by the chair. Administrative staff will enter formal minutes and record final vote tallies in the official minutes.
Ending: These matters were moved during the meeting’s reconvened session after closed meeting deliberations. Administrative staff will complete the paperwork and notifications required by state education agency rules where applicable.
