Governmental Relations
Grassroots Meetings 2010
To register for your grassroots meeting, review the schedule of meetings and click on the Register Now link that corresponds with the regional meeting you would like to attend.
TASB Governmental Relations (GR) will begin facilitating the 2010 TASB Grassroots Meetings in January. The meetings will take place in each education service center region between January 27 and February 25. At the meetings, attendees will discuss issues of importance to school districts that will eventually be crafted into TASB Advocacy Agenda Priorities, which will guide TASB during the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature in 2011. Regional meetings also featured local legislators discussing education issues with trustees.
Additionally, school board members in attendance will elect representatives to the 2010-2012 TASB Legislative Advisory Council (LAC). The LAC is the body that consolidates the list of proposed priorities from all regional grassroots meetings and recommends a final list of Advocacy Priorities to the TASB Board. Four members of LAC will be chosen to serve on the TASB Legislative Committee.
In November, individual school board members and whole boards participated in the online 2009 TASB Grassroots Hot Topics Survey. Regional responses from the survey will form the basis for discussion during each grassroots meeting. This will help ensure that board members' voices are heard throughout the TASB Advocacy Agenda process.
School board members are also able to attend grassroots meetings closer to home if their designated regional meetings are farther than another regional meeting. Note: School board members can only be elected to the LAC if they are attending the grassroots meeting in their designated ESC region.
Contact Dax Gonzalez (
or 800-580-4885) in TASB GR with any questions regarding the 2010 Grassroots Meetings or the TASB Advocacy Agenda process.