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District will use Texas Open Meetings Act exemptions for closed-session superintendent interviews
Summary
The board's agenda cites Texas Government Code sections 551.071, 551.129 and 551.074 as bases for a closed executive session to allow attorney consultation and personnel deliberations while interviewing superintendent candidates.
The Throckmorton Collegiate ISD agenda for April 8, 2025, lists an executive session under the Texas Open Meetings Act (Texas Government Code Section 551.001 et seq.) and specifically references Tex. Gov. Code §§551.071, 551.129 and 551.074 as possible legal authorities for closing the meeting. Those citations appear in the agenda text posted in the transcript.
The agenda connects those statutory citations to two types of confidential business: consultation with the school attorney and deliberation regarding appointment or employment of a public officer or employee. The agenda also separately notes deliberations related to purchase, exchange, lease or valuation of real property. The transcript contains the agenda language only and does not record the content of any attorney consultation or personnel deliberations.
