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Blue Ridge ISD board adopts 2025-26 academic calendar and approves administrative items
Summary
The board approved the 2025-2026 academic calendar, blackout dates for open-records requests, and Early Resignation Notices, all by 6-0 votes (one absent). Motions were made by Kevin Dauster (calendar) and Gary Lillard (blackout dates).
The board approved the 2025-2026 Blue Ridge ISD academic calendar on a motion by Kevin Dauster, seconded by Lonnie Murphy. The motion passed 6-0 with one trustee absent. The district described the calendar as the mechanism to meet requirements outlined in Policy EB (LEGAL).
The board also approved blackout calendar dates for open-records requests (motion by Gary Lillard, second by John Gaulden) and approved Early Resignation Notices (motion by Scott Cessna, second by Lonnie Murphy). Both motions carried 6-0 with one absent. The consent agenda earlier in the meeting had also included ordering the general election for May 3 and scheduling a ballot position drawing if needed.
"I move to approve the adoption of the 2025-2026 BRISD Academic Calendar as presented," said Kevin Dauster when making the motion to adopt the calendar. Board members did not record any dissent during the public meeting; details about calendar dates and specific blackout windows were included in the board packet referenced at the meeting.
