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Trustees begin rewrite of Socorro ISD board operating procedures and committee rules
Summary
Trustees and a consultant reviewed the board operating procedures, discussed removing redundant policy language, reorganizing the document by topical chapters, and limiting standing committees in favor of time‑bound task forces with sunset dates.
At a Jan. 7 workshop, Socorro ISD trustees and facilitator Ben Mackey extensively reviewed the district’s board operating procedures (BOPs), identifying redundancies between local policy, legal (TEA) requirements and the BOP document. Mackey told the board that many local bullet points ‘‘are actually not in your policy’’ and recommended streamlining the BOPs to be a concise, user‑friendly quick reference for trustees.
Trustees debated whether long local…
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