Frenship ISD board approves consent items, 2025–26 calendar and an architectural‑services pool (one recusal)

Frenship ISD trustees took several formal actions, approving the consent agenda, adopting the 2025–26 academic calendar (Draft B) and approving a recommended pool of architectural firms for projects tied to the district's 2024 bond.

Consent agenda: Board members moved and seconded the consent agenda; following a verbal roll call ("All in favor, say aye"), the chair declared the motion carried.

2025–26 academic calendar: Administration summarized the calendar committee process, which included roughly 40 participants and about 1,800 survey respondents. Both calendar drafts shared the same counts for staff and student days; Draft B — favored by 55.62% of respondents — treats Presidents' Day and the Monday after Easter as holidays for both students and staff and places a staff development day and a student holiday in May. Administration recommended and the board approved Draft B. The motion to approve was moved by Chelsea Salazar and seconded by Andrew Cox; the board voted verbally and the motion carried.

Architectural services RFQ: Staff presented a request for qualifications (RFQ) process and recommended forming a pool of architects (including BGR Architects, Corgan Associates, JDMA Architects and MWM Architects) to support multiple bond projects rather than selecting a single architect for the entire bond program. Miss Salazar recused herself from the architectural vote because of a conflict of interest tied to a family connection; after recusal, the board voted to approve the recommended pool and the motion carried.

All actions were approved on verbal motions and aye/no calls recorded in the meeting; the transcript records the approvals but does not list an individual vote tally by board member for each motion.