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Fredericksburg ISD trustees approve package of policies, interlocal agreements and student code of conduct
Summary
At its Aug. 11 meeting the Fredericksburg Independent School District Board of Trustees unanimously approved routine consent items, a series of donations and interlocal agreements, adopted the Student Code of Conduct for 2025–26, and appointed four members to the district School Health Advisory Council following closed session.
The Fredericksburg Independent School District Board of Trustees on Aug. 11 approved a package of routine financial and administrative items, donations to support student testing and programs, multiple interlocal agreements with local partners, and the district Student Code of Conduct for the 2025–26 school year.
Trustee Matt Seidenberger called the meeting to order at 5:32 p.m. The board, with five members present, voted unanimously on a series of motions covering consent items—minutes from prior meetings, fund statements, budget amendments and the quarterly year‑end investment report—and on individual agenda items brought forward by administration.
Among the approvals, the board accepted any and all donations from the FISD Education Foundation for the 2025–26 academic year and approved a donation to support PSAT testing as presented by administration. The board also adopted a resolution approving the district's investment policy, selected investment strategies and approved associated training providers and broker/dealers, and authorized an audit engagement letter as presented.
On personnel, the board approved the district's T‑TESS (teacher evaluation) goal setting and evaluation calendar and appraisers and approved a Good Cause Exception resolution that was presented by administration. The board also approved a 4‑H resolution/adjunct faculty item for Gillespie County and adopted EFB (Exhibit), establishing a Local School Library Advisory Council, together with EFB (LOCAL) policy revisions.
The trustees voted to approve an interlocal agreement with the TX Virtual School Network, an interlocal agreement with the City of Fredericksburg regarding school resource officers, and an interlocal agreement with the Fredericksburg Municipal Court for juvenile truancy matters (Juvenile Case Manager Program). The Student Code of Conduct for the 2025–26 school year was approved as presented.
The board went into closed session under the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code, Chapter 551, at 7:07 p.m. for security matters related to the Guardian program and for personnel and student‑privacy matters concerning School Health Advisory Council (SHAC) members. When the board reconvened at 8:18 p.m., trustees voted to appoint Melanie Gilroy, Kristi Stafford, John Willome and Fowlan Allen to two‑year terms on the SHAC beginning with the 2025–26 school year. That motion passed 4–0; three trustees were recorded as absent for the vote.
All motions recorded in the minutes passed on voice or roll call with a recorded tally of 5–0 for most items; the SHAC appointment vote was recorded 4–0 with three absences. The meeting adjourned at 8:19 p.m.
Items approved as presented in the board minutes did not include dollar amounts or detailed contractual terms in the public minutes; where the minutes list only that an item was approved "as presented," details were not specified in the record.
