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Chico ISD board convenes closed session to interview superintendent applicants
Summary
The Chico ISD Board of Trustees entered closed session April 20, 2026, citing Government Code provisions to interview superintendent candidates and discuss personnel. The Board announced the closed session began at 6:01 p.m. and ended at 9:45 p.m.
The Chico Independent School District Board of Trustees convened a closed meeting on April 20, 2026, to interview candidates for superintendent and discuss other personnel-related matters. Board President Kyle Grimes announced the closed session would be held "in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act," citing specific Government Code sections, and noted the closed session began at 6:01 p.m.
The minutes list Item D under the closed-session notice as "Board interview and discussion of superintendent applicants" (Tex. Gov't Code § 551.074). The Board returned to open session at 9:45 p.m., and no substantive details from the interviews were disclosed in the public minutes. The agenda indicated that personnel and student matters (Items G and H) were also on the closed-session agenda, but the minutes do not report any public action or decision related to the superintendent search during open session.
Board members in attendance for the meeting were Trustee Kyle Grimes (Board President), Trustee Chris Laney, Trustee Cassie Skinner, Trustee Chance Earp, Trustee Phillip Liebel and Trustee Ubaldo Garcia; Trustee Jada Ayala was absent. Interim Superintendent Breann Cox was listed among other attendees. The minutes record no public comments related to the superintendent search during the public portion of the meeting.
