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Northside ISD trustees review operating procedures, ask staff to draft changes for Nov. 11
Summary
Board members debated updates to pre-election meeting rules, committee meeting guidance, public-comment language, vendor-sponsored dinners, device use on the dais and electioneering language. Trustees directed staff to draft revisions and return them for consideration at the Nov. 11 regular meeting.
The Northside ISD Board of Trustees met in a called session to review proposed revisions to the board's operating procedures and the district code of ethics and directed staff to produce a draft for the Nov. 11 regular meeting.
Staff opened the discussion, noting the last review of operating procedures had been about a year earlier and reminding trustees that any substantive changes would require approval by four of the seven trustees. "We wanted to pick back up our operating procedures as well as our code of ethics," a district staff member said, adding committee-meeting guidance must be updated for recent legislative changes.
Trustees spent the bulk of the meeting on several clustered topics. On pre-election information meetings for candidates and officers, trustees said the district's long-standing practice has been to exclude trustees who are running for office so the session does not disadvantage challengers. Multiple trustees recommended specifying that no more than two trustees who are not seeking…
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