The DeLeon ISD Board of Trustees met for a brief regular monthly meeting on May 15, 2007.

The agenda included all matters related to the May 12 election, however all of those matters were held due to having to wait for provisional ballots to be certified and counted. Those final results were not available for the Board to take action on the election, and a special meeting was scheduled for Monday, May 21 at the district central office for the sole purpose of canvassing the election results.

The regular June meeting agenda will include the swearing-in of newly elected and reelected trustees and the election of Board officers for the coming year.

Following the adoption of the consent agenda, the Board entered into closed session to consider personnel issues. After returning from closed session, the administration recommended that a contract for the 2007-08 school year be extended to Maggie Thayer. The recommendation was accepted unanimously by the Board.

As matters of discussion, it was noted that the district depository contract was near the end of its current term. Due to the large amount of money that the district is currently investing locally, the district will seek new bids for the contract. Those bids will be reviewed and a decision made on the issue at the next regular board meeting.

It was announced during the discussion section of the meeting that the DISD is currently in negotiations with Texas State Technical College to begin offering college level technical courses at DeLeon High School beginning in the fall. DISD will begin offering Cisco Networking which will allow students to obtain their Cisco Certification for Networking as college credit this fall. The course work will be open to juniors and seniors interested in taking the program. The district is also working with TSTC in finding other courses, including welding, computer science, and food/nutrition, which can be counted for dual credit purposes and allow students to earn college credit.

The administration noted that all tuition expenses for classes offered during the regular school year would be paid by the district. The district’s end goal of the program is to allow students to acquire up to 60 college credit hours at no personal expense. The new high school allotment provided by the state is being used by the district to provide students the incentive to begin their college education and complete as much of it as possible prior to graduating from high school. The district has been offering academic college courses in cooperation with Ranger College and will continue to offer those classes as well as the new technical classes with TSTC.

The canvassing meeting of the Board was held on Monday, May 21st. At that meeting the members present accepted the results of the election. Reelected for another three year term on the Board was Kelly Dickey and Becky Golden, and Brad Sanders was elected for full three year term. Sanders will take the place of Janet McGinnis who was appointed last summer to fill an unexpired term. The results of the bond issue were also canvassed, with the issue not passing by a total of 51 votes based on the final results, including counted provisional ballots.