The Lubbock ISD Board of Trustees voted to hire Carol Evans as the district\u2019s new director of procurement following an executive closed session.<\/p>\n
Trustees moved, seconded and approved the appointment; the board announced the motion carried 6-0. The board recorded the motion on the public record: \u201cI move that we hire Carol Evans as the new director of procurement.\u201d No named mover or seconder was recorded in the open minutes.<\/p>\n
Carol Evans addressed the board after the vote, saying she was \u201cgenuinely honored and humbled to accept the role of director.\u201d Evans said she will measure decisions against the district\u2019s standard \u201cevery child, every day,\u201d and that she intends to \u201cincrease our level of customer service and responsiveness,\u201d collaborate with principals and department heads, and \u201cbreak down barriers\u201d to align procurement strategies with district goals.<\/p>\n
The action followed an executive closed session under Texas Government Code chapter 551. The public minutes show the hiring motion and the unanimous vote; no additional conditions or effective date were specified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lubbock ISD Board of Trustees voted to hire Carol Evans as the district\u2019s new director of procurement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-31336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31336","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=31336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}