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Petersburg ISD holds special meeting, enters closed session under Open Meetings Act
Summary
The Petersburg ISD Board of Trustees convened a special meeting April 10, 2026, held a closed session citing section 551.074 (personnel), then approved an administrative contract for the superintendent; one board member was absent.
The Petersburg Independent School District Board of Trustees met in a special session at the Administrator's Office, 1411 West Fourth Street, Petersburg, Texas, at 7:00 a.m. on April 10, 2026. President Collin Kattner led the meeting and an opening prayer; the roll call listed members Collin Kattner (president), Julie Watson (secretary), Lissa Orozco, Linda Padron, John B. Gicante III and Stephen Marquez as present, with Travis Vaughn absent. School personnel Todd Newberry and Shayna Lopez attended.
The board entered a closed session "in accordance with the Open Meetings Act; section 551.074 et Seq," which the minutes record beginning shortly after the meeting opened and ending at 7:15 a.m. (the transcript contains a typographical error for the closed-session start time recorded as "7:202 a..m.", corrected here to 7:02 a.m.). After returning from closed session the board took a formal motion to approve the superintendent's administrative contract for the 2026—2028 school years and recorded the motion as passed 6-0. The meeting adjourned after the vote.
