Northeast Independent School District board adopts TEA hearing examiner's findings and votes to terminate Chapter 21 term contract employee

The Northeast Independent School District board unanimously adopted a Texas Education Agency hearing examiner's conclusions and voted to terminate an identified Chapter 21 term contract employee during its meeting, voting 5-0 on both actions.

The board called the matter under Item 4 after returning from an initial executive session for personnel. The presiding officer introduced a possible action to adopt the independent hearing examiner's conclusions of law, including a determination of good cause for termination of the Chapter 21 term contract employee. "So moved," followed by a second; the motion passed 5-0, as recorded by the presiding officer.

Following that vote, the board considered a separate motion "to terminate the identified employee, Chapter 21 term contract as discussed and presented." Board member Thompson moved the motion; Board member Villareal seconded. The board voted and the termination motion passed by a 5-0 tally.

The board acted after meeting in executive session for personnel matters under Texas Government Code section 551.074. Later in the meeting the board adjourned into executive session for pending or possible litigation under Texas Government Code section 551.071 (the transcript records —551.0711—). The board reconvened open session at 6:30 p.m. and adjourned at 6:31 p.m.

The meeting record shows procedural compliance statements that notice was posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act (Texas Government Code, chapter 551). The motions and vote tallies were announced on the record; no individual roll-call votes naming every board member were recorded in the transcript excerpt provided.