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Lake Worth ISD board will use executive session to discuss superintendent applicants under Texas law
Summary
The meeting notice states the board will adjourn into executive session under the Texas Open Meetings Act (Gov. Code ch. 551) and Texas Gov. Code §418.183(f) to discuss superintendent applicants; the agenda emphasizes no final action, decision, or vote will occur while in closed session.
The agenda for the Lake Worth ISD Special Board Meeting on May 6, 2025, states the Board will adjourn into executive session pursuant to the Texas Open Meetings Act and other authority to discuss personnel matters, specifically superintendent applicants. "This Board will now adjourn into executive session pursuant to the following sections of the Texas Open Meetings Act: 55l.074 - Discuss Personnel Matters. The Board will take no final action, make no decisions, nor cast any votes while in executive session."
The agenda references Government Code, Chapter 551, Subchapters D and E and Texas Government Code §418.183(f) as potential authorities for closed meetings and notes that the presiding officer will publicly identify the section(s) authorizing any closed meeting before it is convened. Any final votes, actions or decisions must be taken in open meeting.
The agenda lists "Discussion of superintendent applicants" as the explicit closed-session item and then provides for reconvening to consider a superintendent finalist in open session with Armando Velazquez as presenter. The agenda itself does not record whether any action was taken after reconvening; it only sets the procedural path for personnel deliberations and subsequent open-session consideration of a finalist.
