[I. CALL TO ORDER]
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GOOD MORNING. WELCOME TO THIS CALLED MEETING OF THE RICHARDSON ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
WE DO HAVE A QUORUM PRESENT IN THIS MEETING. IS CALLED TO ORDER AT 10:03AM.
AT THIS TIME WE WILL HAVE OUR PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION.
MISS MCGOWAN, DO WE HAVE ANY PERSONS WHO HAVE REGISTERED TO ADDRESS THE BOARD? WE DO NOT. OKAY. EXCELLENT. THANK YOU, MS. MCGOWAN.
[III.A. Canvass Returns: May 3, 2025, Trustee Election]
TRUSTEES, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BOARD'S JANUARY 16TH, 2025 ORDER CALLING A GENERAL ELECTION AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAW TO DETERMINE THE CANDIDATE ELECTED AS TRUSTEE FOR SINGLE MEMBER DISTRICT TWO, SINGLE MEMBER DISTRICT FOUR AND SINGLE MEMBER DISTRICT FIVE OF THE RICHARDSON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT. OUR AGENDA CALLS FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTION, CANVASING THE RETURNS AND DECLARATION, AND DECLARING THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTION HELD ON MAY 3RD, 2025.FOR THOSE SINGLE MEMBER DISTRICTS TWO, FOUR AND FIVE, CANDIDATE VANESSA PACHECO RECEIVED A MAJORITY OF VOTES CAST FOR DISTRICT TWO BY RECEIVING 2713 VOTES, OR 50.09%, WHILE CANDIDATE PAMELA HUGHES RECEIVED 2339 VOTES, OR 43.19%, AND CANDIDATE ALAIN BONAVITA RECEIVED 364 VOTES, OR 6.72%. CANDIDATE REGINA HARRIS RAN UNOPPOSED AND RECEIVED A MAJORITY OF VOTES CAST FOR DISTRICT FOUR BY RECEIVING 503 VOTES, OR 100% OF THOSE VOTES CAST.
CANDIDATE RACHEL MCGOWAN RECEIVED A MAJORITY OF VOTES CAST FOR DISTRICT FIVE BY RECEIVING 3075 VOTES, OR 87.36%, WHILE CANDIDATE CHRISTINA NERIAH RECEIVED 445 VOTES, OR 12.64%.
PURSUANT TO THIS OFFICIAL CANVASS, VANESSA PACHECO IS DECLARED ELECTED TRUSTEE OF SINGLE MEMBER.
DISTRICT TWO. REGINA HARRIS IS DECLARED ELECTED TRUSTEE FOR SINGLE MEMBER DISTRICT FOUR, AND RACHEL MCGOWAN IS DECLARED ELECTED TRUSTEE FOR SINGLE MEMBER DISTRICT FIVE FOR THE RICHARDSON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT IN ACCORDANCE WITH TEXAS EDUCATE TEXAS ELECTION CODE SECTION 2.051. IS THERE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTION, CANVASING THE RETURNS AND DECLARING THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTION HELD MAY 3RD, 2025. SO MOVED. THANK YOU, MR. MCGOWAN. IS THERE A SECOND? AND I WILL SECOND THAT MOTION. ANY COMMENTS? DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS? QUESTIONS? NO. I JUST WELL, YES, I'D LIKE TO THANK ALL OF THE VOTERS IN MY DISTRICT, WHICH WAS DISTRICT FIVE.
OUR LAKE COLLINS COMMUNITY CAME OUT, AND I APPRECIATE THEM JUST COMING OUT AND SPENDING TIME IN THE POLLS AND GETTING THEIR VOTES IN AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SERVING OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT ANOTHER THREE YEARS. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.
EXCELLENT. ALL IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION ON THE TABLE, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
IN THAT MOTION PASSES 2 TO 0. THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED AT 10:06AM ON MAY 13TH,
2025.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.