Aledo ISD Board Room, 1008 Bailey Ranch Road
With five residents pressing on where to build Elementary No. 5, the board tables the location, authorizes Series 2016 refunding bonds, limits Dallas County Schools to transportation, and calls the May election
Every vote was 6-0. The Feb. 1 minutes were corrected to state a $191,000 superintendent compensation package, and a trustee suggested meeting twice a month after a session that ran to 11:52 p.m.
The Aledo ISD Board of Trustees met Feb. 15, 2016, with six trustees present. McAnally Intermediate's BIGG Club presented. Superintendent Derek Citty reported on the City of Aledo sidewalk grant project and elementary playgrounds nearing completion. The board recognized the football team, all-state band and choir students and the Daniel Ninth Grade campus's CREST Award. Bobby J. Rigues invited trustees to a Region 11 community meeting on the House Bill 2804 accountability system. Five residents spoke: on teacher salaries and Elementary No. 5, the role of the board, the school's location, a petition to reconsider the vote to build north, and public trust.
The consent agenda, approved 6-0, included corrections to prior minutes, among them a correction of the Feb. 1 special meeting minutes to state $191,000 for the superintendent compensation package. Athletic Director Tim Buchanan presented the concussion protocol, CTE Director Mary Smith gave an overview of five endorsements, Director of Student Services and Safety Scott Kessel presented the 2015 drug and alcohol survey and a strategic plan, and Citty showed maps with hypothetical boundaries for Elementary No. 5 in the south or the north.
The board approved, each 6-0: the Too Good for Drugs program; an order authorizing Unlimited Tax Refunding Bonds, Series 2016, with sale parameters, a bond purchase contract and escrow agreement; Technology Package 1; a report to TEA that the Treetops Charter School would have a negative impact on the district; the Dallas County Schools contract for transportation services only; the calling of the trustee election for Places 4 and 5; and tabling the location of Elementary No. 5. After an executive session from 10:10 to 11:48 p.m., it approved administrator contracts and an interdistrict transfer petition with a policy waiver through 2016-2017, each 6-0. A trustee suggested meeting twice a month, Citty said talks with Walsh Development on a memorandum of understanding would continue, and the meeting adjourned at 11:52 p.m.
Sources: Aledo ISD: minutes of the Feb. 15, 2016 meeting, as attached to the March 21, 2016 agenda (BoardBook); Aledo ISD: agenda, Feb. 15, 2016 (BoardBook); Aledo ISD meetings on BoardBook
How this was sourced: Primary documents: the minutes of the Feb. 15, 2016 meeting as posted on BoardBook with the March 21, 2016 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 Sept- 5- 2026, for the archive.