City View Independent School District's board scheduled a closed-door discussion of trustee Vera Smith on Monday, Aug. 10, followed by possible open-session votes to censure her publicly and press criminal charges over alleged criminal misconduct, according to the district's posted agenda for that meeting. That notice is the only official record of the matter available so far.
What the board did after the closed session is not documented in any record found for this report. No minutes or meeting audio for Aug. 10 had turned up as of publication, so the vote count and the wording of any censure the board adopted cannot be checked against a primary source. An agenda sets the outer limit of what a board may act on. It does not show what a board decided. Until the district posts a record of that open session, the outcome of both items remains unconfirmed here.
The agenda's reference to possible action on criminal charges against Smith is the primary-source basis for reporting that the board weighed involving authorities. As posted, the notice describes the matter as alleged criminal misconduct. Both items, the censure and the charges, were listed for open session after trustees met privately.
City View ISD's board page lists Smith as a current trustee and as board secretary. It gives her term as running from 2024 to 2027.
One point of geography for readers: City View ISD is not a Cooke County district. Its official pages place the administrative office in Wichita Falls, 76306.
Texas law draws a hard line around closed meetings, which is the background for how a school board dispute can reach prosecutors. Government Code Section 551.104 requires a governmental body to keep either a certified agenda or a recording of each closed session, and that material stays confidential unless a court orders its release. Section 551.146 makes it a criminal offense to give a certified agenda or recording of a lawfully closed meeting to a member of the public without authority. Read together, the two sections are why a fight over closed-session material can move past an internal reprimand.
Open board business follows a different rule, and districts in the area publish it. City View ISD keeps a public folder of board meeting audio that includes a file labeled for the July 7, 2026 meeting. Wichita Falls ISD links board meeting video from its official board page. Burkburnett ISD's board page carries agendas and meeting information along with board meeting audio recordings. Both are neighboring districts to City View.
This report will be updated if City View ISD posts minutes or audio for the Aug. 10 meeting.
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