The Aledo Ledger Sunday, September 6, 2026

Aledo ISD Board Room, 1008 Bailey Ranch Road

Enrollment lands at 5,040 against a projection of 5,061 as the board sets the superintendent's goals, a class size waiver and a revised calendar

Town halls on the bond were set for Oct. 6 and 13. The sick leave bank reached 325 members. Every vote was 7-0.

The Aledo ISD Board of Trustees met Sept. 15, 2014, with all seven trustees present. Coder Elementary presented its Thinking Maps. Superintendent Derek Citty set town hall meetings on the bond package for Oct. 6 and 13 and four brown-bag lunches, reported enrollment of 5,040 on Sept. 9 against Templeton Demographics' projection of 5,061, and said traffic flow at McAnally Intermediate was improving. Hoyt Harris reported the education foundation's first fundraising campaign of the year; Dr. David Tillman reported the Community Partners at 46 members. The board chose career and technical education as the subject of its Oct. 27 Team of Eight training, set a Sept. 19 operating procedures committee meeting, and directed the administration to compile the board self-evaluation items. There were no public comments.

The consent agenda, including the 2014-2015 School Health Advisory Council, passed 7-0. Denise Dugger gave the ESL annual report and reported 262 students in summer school; Deputy Superintendent Lynn McKinney reported the sick leave bank at 325 members, sixty percent of staff; CTE coordinator Mary Smith presented the program's goals.

The board approved, each 7-0, a maximum class size waiver for three classrooms, the revised 2014-2015 school calendar and the 2014-2015 superintendent goals. After an executive session from 8:27 to 9:30 p.m. on personnel and safety and security with no action, the meeting adjourned at 9:31 p.m.

Sources: Aledo ISD: minutes of the Sept. 15, 2014 meeting, as attached to the Oct. 20, 2014 agenda (BoardBook); Aledo ISD: agenda, Sept. 15, 2014 (BoardBook); Aledo ISD meetings on BoardBook

How this was sourced: Primary documents: the minutes of the Sept. 15, 2014 meeting as posted on BoardBook with the Oct. 20, 2014 agenda, and the meeting agenda. Every vote, number and name above appears in those documents; the Ledger did not review the meeting video. Students, employees who are not administrators, and public commenters are not named. Written 2026-09-06, for the archive.

Filed under Aledo ISD Board of Trustees ยท Topics: What has the board decided about Coder Elementary?; What has the board decided about McAnally Middle School?

LedgerAt a glance
Enrollment
5,040 on Sept. 9, 2014, against a projection of 5,061
Superintendent goals, 2014-2015
Approved, 7-0
Bond town halls
Oct. 6 and 13

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