Southwest ISD announces weather monitoring, food distribution change and staff recognition; closed session planned for superintendent evaluation

District senior staff told the board the district is monitoring a winter weather system and will meet daily as needed to determine possible school closures. "We started to meet yesterday because of the predicted [weather]. So we will meet again, tomorrow at 3 o'clock to see how Wednesday looks, and then we'll meet every day after that to see how our each day looks," a senior staff member said.

The district also announced that a planned food distribution was postponed and rescheduled to Friday, Jan. 17; staff asked the board for reminders on the new date. In other announcements, the board recognized Leah Edmonds, a special education teacher, who the presenter said was the first teacher from Southwest ISD and, to the presenter's knowledge, the first in San Antonio to win the VFW District 20 Teacher of the Year and to be a finalist for the Texas VFW Teacher of the Year; the transcript indicates an official ceremony is scheduled for Jan. 8.

Finally, the board publicly announced it would go into a closed session "pursuant to section 551.074" to conduct a superintendent performance evaluation. The transcript does not include the closed session discussion or any final action taken as a result of that session within the provided excerpt.