Aledo ISD Administration Board Room, 1008 Bailey Ranch Road
School board honors the 2020 state champion football team, drops a proposed Latin reduction in force, buys Annetta Elementary furniture and playground, and nominates the superintendent for a state award
Trustee Jennifer Loftin presided. The 2021-2022 calendar and administrative contracts passed on consent, 6-0.
The Aledo ISD Board of Trustees met March 22, 2021, with Jennifer Loftin presiding in President Hoyt Harris's absence and Trustees David Lear, Jennifer Taylor, Jessica Brown, Julie Turner and Forrest Collins present. Collins reported on bills filed in the 87th Legislative Session, and Brown on the coming McAnally Middle School groundbreaking and the visible progress at Annetta Elementary.
Aledo Middle School presented. The board commended four Circle of Greatness honorees, two TMEA all-state band members, the 2020 football team as Class 5A Division II state champions, the district's 10th state title, and UIL swimming and diving state finalists, and heard a National Youth Art Month presentation. Members of the community spoke. Bohn discussed the district's vaccination efforts and its COVID-19 protocols, and Executive Director of Student Services Scott Kessel presented case numbers.
The consent agenda, approved 6-0, included the 2021-2022 instructional calendar, a missed school days waiver, a pre-kindergarten curriculum adoption, 2021-2022 administrative contracts and the district's literacy, mathematics and college, career and military readiness goals. The board approved, each 6-0: new staffing recommendations for 2021-2022; technology equipment for Annetta Elementary and enrollment growth; furniture, an abatement consultant and contractor for the Aledo Middle School project, and playground equipment for Annetta Elementary; and a resolution nominating Superintendent Susan Bohn for the TASB Superintendent of the Year award. Two posted items on declaring a reduction in force due to a program change ended with no action after Deputy Superintendent Lynn McKinney said the administration would instead propose changing the Latin program, moving the teacher from full time to part time and potentially to a virtual position, given declining enrollment.
Assistant Superintendent Amber Crissey and early literacy specialists reviewed instructional growth and the reading academy plan, Director of Construction and Facilities Tyler Boswell updated the bond scope and budget with progress photos, and Chief Financial Officer Earl Husfeld presented the general operating fund balance report.
Sources: Aledo ISD: minutes of the March 22, 2021 meeting, as attached to the April 19, 2021 agenda (BoardBook); Aledo ISD: agenda, March 22, 2021 (BoardBook); Aledo ISD meetings on BoardBook
How this was sourced: Primary documents: the minutes of the March 22, 2021 meeting as posted on BoardBook with the April 19, 2021 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.