Forney ISD board opens meeting, schedules closed session on property, personnel and safety matters

Greg Farris, president of the Forney ISD Board of Trustees, opened the meeting and certified a quorum, saying, “I hereby call this Board of Trustees meeting to order and certify that a quorum is present and that the time and manner posted were required by law.”

Farris told attendees the board would go into closed session to consult with legal counsel and deliberate on several listed items, including the potential sale, lease and purchase of property; employment and professional contracts; contract renewals for administrators; a request for sanctions of educator certification; student discipline matters; and intruder‑audit findings related to safety and security. The agenda cited the Texas Government Code sections referenced in the meeting notice as the legal bases for those discussions.

He told the room that no voting would occur during the closed session and that open‑session items would not be considered while the board was in closed session. The board was dismissed into closed session at approximately 6:01 p.m.

Because the meeting transcript moves next to closed session, the board did not take further open‑session actions on those topics during the portion of the meeting covered in the public record for this session. Any formal decisions or votes that result from that closed session must be reported in compliance with Texas open‑meeting law when the board returns to open session or in subsequent minutes.