Garland ISD Board of Trustees Member Charles Axe noted that he had requested that an item regarding an employee morale problem be placed on a future meeting agenda two meetings prior and that it appears to him that the matter is not being treated as an emergency situation.
The problem was discovered through an employee survey.
“It appears that the current plan is that now that the central administration has had an opportunity to discuss these results with the building principals, particularly the ones that had very alarmingly low morale situations, that they would be instructed to improve things and we would wait until next year and rate them accordingly,” Axe said.
He acknowledged that things are often handled that way, but he does not feel that the issue can wait that long.
He asked that a discussion be conducted in open session on what measures are currently being taken, what the building administrators have been told and how fast the situation can be resolved.
Additionally, Axe wants to know how the board will find out whether the problems have been resolved.
Board President Larry Glick asked Dr. Bob Morrison, GISD superintendent, if he would like to comment and Morrison declined.