Edcouch-Elsa ISD board accepts administration recommendation to nonrenew two Chapter 21 contracts

The Edcouch-Elsa Independent School District Board of Trustees voted June 7 to accept the administration’s recommendation to nonrenew two Chapter 21 contracts and approved other personnel actions after meeting in executive session.

Following a closed executive session held under the Texas Government Code provisions on personnel and legal consultation, legal counsel advised the board to accept the administration’s recommendation to move forward with nonrenewal of two Chapter 21 contracts identified in the executive session by initials (JP and IF). The board then voted to accept that recommendation.

The chair subsequently presented a separate personnel action described in the executive-session agenda — ‘‘discussion and action regarding personnel considering appointment, resignation, retirement, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer and employees’’ — and the board, on the advice of counsel, accepted the administration’s recommendation on that item as well. The transcript records affirmative votes for the motions with the chair calling for “Aye.” The board later reconvened and stated that “no action was taken in closed session” and then proceeded to act as recorded.

The transcript does not record the full names of the employees whose Chapter 21 contracts were nonrenewed; the meeting minutes or personnel files will contain the formal notices and legally required written statements to affected employees. The board’s action was consistent with the advice of legal counsel and was taken in open session after a closed deliberation.

No further public details about the reasons for the nonrenewals were provided in the open portion of the meeting.