San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees listened to another presentation and additional public comment on the possible restructure of the board from five single-member districts and two at-large trustees to seven single- member districts at their regularly scheduled meeting Monday, Nov. 13. There were only two public comments on the item: one was for the restructure of the board and one was against it.
SMCISD Board President Anne Halsey said the board held a public hearing at the meeting, as is required by law to even consider moving to the restructure of the board. There will be a discussion and potential action at the Dec. 18 meeting. No vote is required.
“We could decide not to take any action on it. We don’t have to vote on it,” Halsey said. “Every ten years after the National Census the board is required to do a realignment, recalibration of our board to make sure that [our] voting districts are in line with federal guidelines in terms of representation and demographics and also to make sure that we don’t have one voting district that has 5,000 people in it and one voting district that has 25,000.”
