The Aledo Ledger Sunday, September 6, 2026

Aledo ISD Board Room, 1008 Bailey Ranch Road

With seventeen bond presentations behind him, the superintendent reports a Superior financial rating as the board adopts campus plans and buys a radio communication system

Every vote was 6-0 after the vice president left. A resident spoke on the math curriculum.

The Aledo ISD Board of Trustees met Oct. 20, 2014, with all seven trustees present. The Daniel Ninth Grade campus presented its Friends of Rachel program. Superintendent Derek Citty reported seventeen events held to share information on the bond program and previewed Bearcat Academy and the Oct. 27 training. The board commended the high school wind ensemble, National Merit commended scholars and a Bayard H. Friedman Award winner. Hoyt Harris reported the education foundation was hiring an executive director, and foundation president Shawn Callaway distributed the annual report and thanked Pressman Printing for in-kind printing. Bobby J. Rigues presented proposed changes to the board operating procedure manual for a November vote and reported on the TASA/TASB convention and a House public education hearing. A resident spoke about the math curriculum.

The consent agenda passed 7-0. Chief Financial Officer Earl Husfeld reported a Superior School FIRST rating and previewed a fund balance policy; Executive Director of Curriculum Kathy Allen presented the instructional materials adoption process for 2014-2015.

After a recess, with David Davis having left at 8:28 p.m., the board approved, each 6-0: the campus improvement plans; the district holiday card winners; a radio communication system purchase; the School Health Advisory Council recommendations; the spring band trip to Florida; and the 2014-2015 textbook committee. An executive session from 9:28 to 10:30 p.m. ended with no action, and the meeting adjourned at 10:31 p.m.

Sources: Aledo ISD: minutes of the Oct. 20, 2014 meeting, as attached to the Nov. 17, 2014 agenda (BoardBook); Aledo ISD: agenda, Oct. 20, 2014 (BoardBook); Aledo ISD meetings on BoardBook

How this was sourced: Primary documents: the minutes of the Oct. 20, 2014 meeting as posted on BoardBook with the Nov. 17, 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 safety and technology purchases has Aledo ISD approved?; What has the board decided about Daniel Ninth Grade Campus?

LedgerAt a glance
School FIRST
Superior rating
Radio communication system
Purchase approved, 6-0
Bond program
Seventeen information events held, per the superintendent

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Sources: Aledo ISD: minutes of the May 18, 2026 meeting, as attached to the June 15, 2026 agenda (BoardBook); Aledo ISD: agenda, May 18, 2026 (BoardBook); Aledo ISD meetings on BoardBook