Our first Agenda item was a report by the City of Hedwig Village on the Campbell Road project.
Our Board held its monthly workshop meeting tonight. Here's a recap of the issues discussed and actions taken on tonight's Agenda.
Next, we received a report from our external financial advisors on the status of the District's Investments. As part of the District's Five Year Educational Plan, a task force was formed in January 2008 to review the District's Grade Level classes. The Task Force presented its findings and recommendations to the Board tonight. Here is the PowerPoint that was presented and here are the additional documents provided to the Board regarding the task force's meetings, recommendations, membership, and additional reference materials. We followed that discussion with a discussion on all of the standing committees and task forces currently active in Spring Branch, both as part of the Five Year Educational Plan and normal operations (eg. Calendar Committee, Volunteer Advisory Board, etc.). There are many committees and task forces working hard to make the goals of our Five Year Educational Plan a reality. Our first action item on tonight's agenda was second reading and continued discussion of a new policy EGA (Local) Innovative and Academy Programs. (For more information on the discussion of this policy from our June workshop meeting, please click here, and from our April meeting, please click here).
Finally, the Board considered and voted on a Resolution regarding the proposed amendment to the Harris County Appraisal District's 2008 Budget and adoption of 2009 Budget. The purpose of the Resolution is to request that HCAD recognize that under the current school finance system, HCAD's budget increases, which are passed through directly to taxing jurisdictions including Spring Branch, require us to either reduce other areas of our budget or seek a tax increase. Our payment to HCAD is anticipated to increase from $1.8 million in 2007-2008 to slightly over $2 million this year.
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