Board adopts TASB Localized Policy Manual Update 126 with district exceptions

At the Dec. 17 meeting the Ricardo ISD board approved applying the TASB Policy Service Localized Policy Manual Update 126 to the district's local policies, while explicitly excluding three local-policy sections under the district's District of Innovation exceptions. The motion wording recorded in the transcript reads in part: "I move that the board add, revise, or delete (LOCAL) policies as offered by TASB Policy Service for consideration and according to the Instruction Sheet for TASB Localized Policy Manual Update 126 with the following changes: exclude DGBA (LOCAL), FNG(LOCAL), and GF (LOCAL) in alignment with our District of Innovation Plan exceptions."

Trustee Robert Zavala made the motion and Lance Hamm seconded; the recorded vote was Yea from Angela Bull, Carol Cannon, Lance Hamm, Charles Saverline and Robert Zavala, with Rosanna Arevalo and Mario Mendietta absent. The transcript records the motion as "Passed." The board did not add further discussion in the transcript regarding the policy specifics or the practical effects of the DOI exceptions.