{"id":30294,"date":"2025-11-01T01:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/30294\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T01:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:34:09","slug":"leander-isd-board-of-trustees-names-appointee-for-place-6-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/30294\/","title":{"rendered":"Leander ISD board of trustees names appointee for Place 6 vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Leander ISD board of trustees<\/a> named Laura Marques as the appointee to fill the vacant Place 6 seat during a special meeting Oct. 30.<\/p>\n

The gist<\/p>\n

The board approved Marques in a 5-0 vote. Trustee Paul Gauthier was not present.<\/p>\n

The seat was left vacant by former trustee Francesca Romans, who announced her resignation<\/a> Oct. 22 due to health reasons. The board officially accepted her resignation during a special meeting Oct. 28 and interviewed four candidates in closed session, including Marques.<\/p>\n

During the Oct. 28 meeting, board president Anna Smith said that a Texas Government Code outlines the process for trustee resignations and provides the framework for how vacancies may be addressed.<\/p>\n

The board considered a special-called election but due to cost savings and leadership continuity concluded that naming an appointment was in LISD’s best interest, she said.<\/p>\n

“On behalf of the board, I’d like to extend our sincere appreciation to all the candidates who took the time to meet with us and their willingness to serve as a member of the board of trustees,” Smith said during the Oct. 30 meeting.<\/p>\n

Next steps <\/p>\n

According to district officials, Marques is expected to be sworn in sometime in November. She will hold the position until November 2026, which is when Romans’ term would have ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Leander ISD board of trustees named Laura Marques as the appointee to fill the vacant Place 6…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,14747,20321,20320,20316,14746,20317,20318,14745,20319],"class_list":["post-30294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-francesca-romans","tag-francesca-romans-resignation","tag-laura-marques-board-of-trustees","tag-laura-marques-leander-isd","tag-leander-isd-board-of-trustees","tag-leander-isd-board-resignation","tag-leander-isd-new-leadership","tag-leander-isd-news","tag-leander-isd-place-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}