IC ISD Board Meeting April 14 2025
- G. Noelke
- 22 hours ago
- 2 min read
Agenda Analysis | Meeting Review | Board Documents | Commentary | Last Meeting
This fieldhouse is going to be extended for storage as part of Phase 1 construction. You can see the plans here.
A. Agenda Analysis 1. Meeting location: Cafeteria. 2. Administrative reports, item 6 d, 2nd quarter investment report: Ms. Lakey is a regular at nearly all the meetings now, but she isn't often listed on the agenda. To put this in context, this meeting is being held only 12 days after President Trump implemented the Liberation Day tariffs. Her report is not likely to be positive...and a lot is riding on investment returns. The District gets to keep in its own coffers the investment interest off unspent 2024 bonds. 3. Bond construction, item 5: This is the standard posting for the Board's construction. 4. Teachers, employee contracts, item 14: This item comes at the end of the meeting after the closed session session and action items from closed session. 5. Closed Session, board training, item 11b: If all the Board members are Guardians, I suppose there are instances where board member training can be kept private. Otherwise, I don't know of an instance where training would be confidential.
Again, here's one source of our community's stormwater problem. This is on the south end of the District's campus. Each successive engineer has to address stormwater that originates at the beginning of this blue arrow and travels several blocks away to the fieldhouse pictured above. Thus far they have each built upon the errors of the ones that came before, while all have taken full advantage of the fact that the City of Mertzon does not have a stormwater management plan. Then they leave town. Well, mostly. SKG Engineering is out of San Angelo, and they worked on the new gym and are currently working on the 2024 bond projects for Parkhill.
B. Meeting Review (Pending)
It is spring in West Texas, and one sign - if you are lucky enough to see it - is a horse crippler cactus in bloom. This one is at the Mertzon Cemetery at the grave site of my Great Great Grandmother, Alice Patterson Blackwell Noelke, 1847-1912. I have posted photos of other horse cripplers in bloom here and here.
C. Commentary (Pending)
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