001Hi, good afternoon, everybody. We're about to begin our regularly scheduled monthly board meeting. It is 5 30. We're going to start with a roll call Dr. Ariel cruz bella present crystal hernandez present israel. Villarreal the third present rudy corona Rutoso gomez present orlando lopez present alex reyna Alfredo perez present tony torrez Okay, we do have a quorum. We're going to go into our pledge of allegiance and an invocation Good afternoon Today, we have two outstanding students from veterans memorial academy under the leadership of principal gracy martinez For our pledge of allegiance. We have mr. Enrique garza Enrique garza is a 14 year old freshman at veterans memorial academy He is the son of albert and vivian garza He enjoys golfing playing basketball and caring for his heifers through the future farmers of america program Doing
002our invocation We have miss marcella roana garcia An incoming ninth grader to the veterans memorial academy. She is the daughter of mr and silvia garcia Marcella's favorite subject is science and she enjoys the exploration of how things work She has achieved tsi completion while still in eighth grade active in extracurriculars marcella plays Basketball and serves as co-captain of the vma cheer team showcasing her leadership Aspiring to become an attorney she plans to attend texan m university and college station to pursue her career goals Her determination and enthusiasm enthusiasm are truly commendable Will everyone please rise for the pledge of allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god Indivisible with liberty and justice for all Honor the texas flag.
003I pledge allegiance to the texas one state under god one and indivisible If everyone could please bow their heads Dear god, thank you for this opportunity to become For this opportunity to come together as a school community We are grateful for the teachers staff board members and families who give their time energy and care to help our school succeed Please guide the conversations and decisions made here tonight Give everyone wisdom patience and understanding so the so that the choices are made fair thoughtful and in the best interest of all students Help us as students to stay focused kind and motivated to reach our goals and help us all Adults and students alike to treat each other with respect and compassion Thank you for the gift of learning and the chance to grow every day amen
004amen At this time we would also like to recognize the parents of maricela garcia and enrique garza of y'all will please stand Thank you all very much for your support The next agenda item is public public comment item on the agenda is public comment But before we begin I will remind our audience members of the board's procedures for handling public comments The public comment portion of our meeting is available to members of the public according to the following At regular board meetings the board shall permit public comment regardless of whether the topic is an item on the agenda posted with notice of the meeting At all other board meetings public comment shall be limited to items on the agenda posted with notice of the meeting Anyone who would like to speak during a public comment
005must sign any prior to the start of the meeting and list the topics same one to discuss An individual's public comments to the board should not exceed five minutes per meeting Please keep your comments or criticisms civil and courteous Please avoid using profanity and refrain from making personal attacks on others during your opportunity to speak Be asked that you do not discuss students who are not your own children In addition the participating individuals shall adhere to the following State their full name and what organization or group if any is being represented indicate the topic about which they wish to speak Shall refrain from commenting directly on the individual employee or public official by name But may refer to a specific employment area job title or the board as a whole and shall refrain from attacks
006on individuals Lastly if after at least one warning from the presiding officer Any individuals continue to disrupt the meeting by his or her words or actions? The presiding officer may request assistance from law enforcement officials to have the individual removed from the meeting If a speaker is seeking board resolution of a specific complaint that should be addressed through the district grievance process district policy Dgba has been established for addressing employee complaints Policy fng is the avenue for filing pairing complaints and policy gf addresses committee member complaints Grievance forms can be obtained at any campus administration office or at the district central administration offices That was nice Our first uh, it makes our job a lot easier Of our first public comment is miss mary maney Good evening superintendent. Uh pres board members president hernandez Guys,
007that was great It helps save everybody having to rush through and feel funny on but that was a good good thing like that Okay, uh as usual start off with my thank yous. We uh over at the high school. Oh, by the way, i'm mary maney I'm with somebody to high school and i'm basically representing myself and people that talk to me um This past saturday was it saturday before but they had all the schools come out at the high school and they had people come out And parents are looking and seeing that was a lot of fun. That was a lot of good stuff cooperation Made it made a big impact on some of the the people to see what they had on it Um, but in my usual is my thank yous guys
008we have some incredible cafeteria workers that have Suffered through the summer providing food for the kids and getting the meals, you know and they they never really stopped with what they were doing good jobs on that and It helps having the kids coming back in a good in a better mood having been fed during the summer our transportation is doing an incredible job trying to um Maintain our new ending schedules now if we can just get the buses from the vma To the high school and back and forth a little bit better. That would be nice But hey, we we have to wait a little bit longer on on those miracles custodians of maintenance were excellent for helping us get these rooms set up and getting ready to go and last minute problems that were
009coming in And our poor technology department all the calls are getting right now because we got students who can't log in We've got computers that theoretically we're working that aren't now so we had all these fun things going on We just started the year starts off really good So, you know, we are as a district really good the new self-help policy, you know from my point of view I'm actually seeing kids interacting in the hall a little bit that they want it They actually are paying attention to each other helping each other find places it's not just this or totally zoned out, so Let's hope that stays that way for the whole thing and no real difficulties with that one In looking at the agenda. I did have one question coming out in the t-test
010calendar You have a line for the self-evaluation goals. You say it's appraisers only there is no date With teachers when that stuff is due Also, we have not received dates yet on The required videos and t-tests. I know they're coming out But also because remember we're talking about 19 hours of excess That are unpaid. Please consider that as a good reason for a $500 Christmas stipend I have to get it in have to get in. I can't I can't get away from that Thank you also for the hundred dollar Supply stipend for teachers in Paris, you know just so long so we can all get that one through We've still got time to do that and From a personal point of view there is an MOU Up for stellar ed resources that deals with stems
011and this is one of the things that I work with Would be really nice to get that one through But I want to congratulate our district because I've talked to other districts The sheer amount when you look at our agendas of MOUs and cooperative agreements Not just through the CTE department, but through academics and all this is so much higher than a lot of the school districts So, you know It really does put forward the fact that you are student centered and you're wanting us to present the best that we can possibly do so again, um One of the reasons I came down in 2014 to this area and I started at san benito Day one they're the one of the first people I interviewed with they stayed with me through the whole thing and
012i've stayed with them Is because of this culture in this community of Being willing to help each other Not everybody knows how to ask for help, but they're very quick to volunteer help so, um, you know and as a board you are stepping up and helping with A lot of that the cooperation is visible between the board makes things a lot easier, too So, um, as I said, we've got a really good start of the year and it would be really nice to Keep it that way and any of the conflicts that I do know will be coming up are minimized and Cooperatively worked with so again, thank you very much for allowing us the opportunity to do this and I really do like the video on the start Thank you Thank you. Ms. Manny.
013Our next speaker is miss monica. Anaya good evening My name is monica. Anaya. I'm here as a citizen of san benito um Good evening esteemed board members superintendent peter's District leadership team and everyone here tonight I'm here to talk about agenda item 9.9, which is bobby morrow stadium lighting and scoreboard replacement project um, I just wanted to say start off by, uh, thanking, uh everybody for already applying for the t-mobile 5g grant to help perhaps, um With the offset of that cost of the scoreboard and anything that entails Last year, I know the district was awarded five thousand dollars from that grant Which was really awesome and so it really shows a lot of leadership and Looking for outside funding and doing what we can to make the improvements without putting the extra strain on
014the district's budget Um, so the project is not just about football. I think i'm i'm not here Um as part of the quarterback club, I am the quarterback club president this year And many of you know, I have a son who plays football, but i'm not here for that I'm here because it's much more than just football You know, it's a community gathering place. We have graduation We have our autism walk. We have a lot of events that go on at bobby morrow stadium so People remember people remember things that that happen there at the stadium So we celebrate our students our traditions and the pride of san benito there So the current setup has served us a very long time We were one of the first ones to get those big jumbo trans back
015in the day and everybody remembers I think maybe a lot of people sitting in the room Remember when it was debuted and it was like the biggest one in the valley and so it was really exciting so now we're probably one of the smallest ones in the valley and so um We you know, um, it'd be nice. It would be nice if we can get that Approved so better lighting means better visibility safety for our players for our performers our fans a modern scoreboard, you know just a more excitement More professional looking and it reflects what we value in our students and in our community and and it's putting Uh forth our our best foot forward Um, so when somebody walks in the stadium whether it's a parent an alumni the visiting team a community
016member What they see sends a message about what we value and the project says that we value our students We value our community and we're willing to invest in making their experiences the best that we can Improving this tonight means that we move forward and we keep building that pride and we show that San Benito is a place where great things happen not just in the classroom, but in the spaces we come together Thank you for your time your leadership and your dedication to our students and our community And I truly hope that you give your full support to this project today. Thank you Thank you, miss anaya Our next speaker is miss yarida abrigo Okay Good evening members of the board. My name is yarida abrigo. I'm representing myself as a proud parent and
017Community member i'm here tonight to speak about our agenda item 9.9 the current stadium issues Our stadium which is named after a three-time olympic gold medalist bobby maro the name carries pride history And excellence, but when you look at the conditions of our current of our stadium and its audio system Well, we currently have to represent Mr. Bobby maro simply doesn't match the honor his name carries and his name deserves For years, we've had ongoing issues with the speakers which this isn't just about friday night football although Those nights do matter This is also about every major community event held in that stadium including graduation For the past three years i've had the honor to attend graduation nights and every time the audio just keeps on getting more You know pretty bad Families trying to
018hear their children's name called guests can't clearly hear the speeches It takes away from what should be one of the most memorable nights of a student's life This also impacts our ability to bring in sponsorships As miss monica anaya i'm also part of the quarterback club And we are having kind of difficulty bringing in those sponsorships to help out our children We can't really help those sponsorship big packages that we have to offer to the businesses When there's no functioning board to display their support Sponsorships are a vital revenue source and without visibility for our sponsors those numbers do remain low I urge you to take this seriously and address the audio and display needs of poorer stadium Before another season or graduation passes us by Bobby marl's name and our students truly deserve better.
019Thank you so much for your time Thank you Thank you miss abrigo Our next agenda item is the board report On behalf of the board. I want to welcome everybody to a brand new school year As we embark on this 2025 2026 school year I know that our district leadership team our directors our principals assistant principals Counselors have put in a lot of work over the summer Um, we are on day three Of our new year and luckily everything has gone Pretty pretty good these past couple of days It's a joy to see all the kids returning to school some more excited than others, of course and our teachers are Excited to have their students in their classrooms I just want to take this moment to thank everyone that put all the hard work in
020to make these First couple of days of school great our maintenance department our custodians our cafeteria workers Transportation, they're the first faces that our kids see when they ride the bus So I just want to take the time to thank all of our departments For making our school district move forward The next agenda item will be the superintendent's report. Mr. Perez Yes, I just wanted to Say thank you to everybody As we all get back to class as our students are in class it's great to walk the halls and see all the smiling faces and the crying three-year-olds and The things we look forward to I do want to thank all of our employees that worked all summer You know, I know a lot of us don't have a summer But thank you for everything
021you do. It was a hard working summer We had a very good summer the past year and we showed a lot of improvement. We're looking for the same thing So I wanted to welcome the teachers back thank them for everything they're doing I know our students are are dealing with a new law on their cell phones, but it's it's been pretty good Like I think this made me said it it's kids talking to kids again And I even heard somebody saying that kids were passing notes in class for for those of us that remember that But now we're excited. We're excited about this school year. Uh, and just again, welcome everybody back. Thanks Our next agenda item is a presentation by workforce solutions cameron county. Mr Rafael vela the ceo of cameron county workforce solutions
022Good Afternoon, thank you very much for allowing us a little bit of time to talk to you about the workforce Um, if you'll give me a second, I want to introduce two members of our team Ana muniz is an outreach specialist and critical to the work that we do together with the school district I saw on the agenda later on and under the consent agenda items. There is a An item that addresses a partnership between workforce solutions cameron and the school district So thank you beforehand for your approval of that. It's indicative of your commitment to the workforce and our partnership So thank you for that and noy rendon who's part of our it team is in the back So to thank you both for your efforts on our behalf. I am here today To
023share with you some information about the workforce in workforce There are individuals who need tangible tools and others that need intangible tools. So hopefully today My purpose is to give you the board and the trustees some intangible tools so that you can move forward and make Regarding the workforce even more informed decisions Our customers we have three We have the job seeker We have the individual who is working and seeks to be up skilled and then we have the industrial complex that need those workers So i'm going to share with you some images if you go to the next one noy We are part very quickly out of deference to your agenda I want to do this as quickly as I can There are 28 workforce boards in the state of texas and what you
024see are images. We are number 24 down there at the bottom Uh, we have a one our service area is cameron county And uh our compadre is over there to the left Number 23 that's lower Workforce solutions lower rio next This is our board of trustees Shout out to mr. Villarreal who is one of our newest board members, but we're a conscientious Voice, so thank you for your leadership We are these 27 board members are appointed by the county judge That's an image of county judge trevino and the mayor of the largest city in the county by law So those are two Chief exec elected officials you can see if you look at this list of board members It's a broad swath we have individuals who are small businesses To spacex and then 60 by
025law of our board members have to be from the private sector the remaining 40 from the public sector So we're very appreciative of their leadership and their commitment to our cause next I introduce you to the workforce continuum We partner with individuals entities in the in our region for training community college technical college Industry obviously is where everybody's going and then you see that we scratched out k through 12 in our case. It's zero through 12 So the reason we put zero through 12 is because if there's an impediment To an individual finding work because as you know, child care is very very important. We step in So there's about 180 child care centers In cameron county and so we liaison with them and help those individuals and work with them to raise The level
026of the product that they're producing for those for those young people those young kids So that is basically what we do and no piece of that image is any bigger than the other So I introduce that to you so you can get a notion for what we do I want to give you a couple of factors about the work that we do the work that we all collectively do in cameron county And then share with you labor market information One thing that affects the work that we do. This is a graph that shows in 2023 median household income in the united states, texas cameron county and hidago county The reason I present this to you is because globally most reputable economists point to Household income median household income as the one metric that measures the
027health and well-being of a region of a state even a country So this is a snapshot of 2023 and you can see the source there on the bottom. So when you look at it i'm a Born in harlingen reared in brownsville six generation valley guy drank a lot of water out of the rosacas like Y'all did here in san benito so There's one giggle back there So if I as somebody who lives here looks at this it's We live in the richest place in america as far as i'm concerned as far as I know you all join me in that sentiment But one area where we have struggled is this right here. So i'm going to show you that image But then they'll go to the next one And show you an even more poignant
028image and that is over the last Five generations, maybe not five maybe three or four generations. We've maintained that So what you see here is a a gap slide that shows you The pink and the blue of the united states in texas the left axis or is that y axis over here? That's a percentage I'm sorry, that's salary household income and the bottom is yellow is cameron county and green is hidago county So those random numbers that you see between us are reflective of the gap in median household income Median household income remember if you have a if you see a line and with a dot in the middle a point in the middle Median household income basically means that half the population earns more and half the population earns less So this right here
029is our collectively in the valley in cameron county our adaptive challenge I i'll stop to get any Comments or observations about this graph, okay next Next so since 2011 this is i'm going to ask noey to activate this this is is a A colorful slide and what it shows you is those those columns on the left those identifiers the oh stop real quick noey those Categories on the left are the categories that the government puts out there to identify categories of household income So you can see the top is um, and these are already conditioned and Customized for cameron county, but I want you to pay attention to the third from the top Those are households that earn less than ten thousand dollars. And of course, we want to avoid that group So i'm going
030to have a noey activated and I want you to see what happens between 2011 and 2023 That's great Because that was 14 percent we went down to a little bit over six percent Now by contrast I want you to play it again noey, but if you look at the bottom two That's 150 to 200 000 and 200 000 and more so watch what happens again to those two There's less than two percent of the of the households in cameron county earn those two categories right there. Go ahead noey Now watch what happens there so in 12 years Remember our service area is cameron county not any one city So it's reflective of the county those are indicators positive indicators that there's a change occurring So that economic growth and the things that can add to
031that are certainly things that we need to be aware of So hopefully you all found that Meaningful for the work that you do. Okay next next And by the way, please invite me back because I have lots more to say with wages and things like that next So I want to share with you something the county judge was we meet regularly and he pointed out the other day to me that There was a trend in lower birth rates And so our crack staff went and didn't try to figure out was that just us. Those are somebody else So what you see here in the these are thousands of babies on the y-axis. Wait, this is x this is y On this axis over here These are thousands of babies born and if you look at
032the yellow line the way you read this is in 2005 There were 8200 more or less maybe almost 9 000 babies that were born in cameron county and in 2024 i'm, sorry 2021 there were Many less what number is that about less than 6 000? The red bars are other border communities So you can see there's a trend over the last 20 years for there to be fewer births along the border of texas The blue line on the bottom just randomly we chose galveston as a non-border community and austin Troutus county and you can see how not much of a growth, but it's flat. There's certainly not a decrease so again I give it to you because in the work that you're doing obviously this makes a difference In terms of prioritizing what's going on
033there? I don't know by the way, if you ask me no clue why that's going on But I know it's a problem not a problem, but a A phenomenon that's occurring across the country, but it is interesting how it's just the border and not the the other cities around the state of texas next So here's the where the rubber meets the road the star of the show and that's labor market information So know that we live you all we all live in a a county that has to the exact number 131,874 people live in cameron county of those the way you read this if you look to the left There are 170 000 people that are gainfully employed in cameron county. That's our workforce of those 170 They occupy 835 distinct occupations in 20 different
034industries And so the pie that you see are those 20 industries So the the way you read it that Big green piece of the pie that's health care and social services 29 percent of this is who we are This is why this is so important in cameron county 29 percent of the jobs that are currently available are in health care and social assistance The next biggest piece of the pie is retail 10.89 percent and the third is accommodation and food services. Those are kind of they're red because it's essentially retail So if you look at the pie just from there 50 percent of the jobs currently are in health care and in the retail environment The fourth biggest piece is educational services the Which is the school district any public or private entity that's involved
035in education. The sixth piece is administration and support waste management so security housekeeping things like that Construction makes up four and a half percent manufacturing four and a half percent and then you see the rest of them there Why is this important? There are two archaeologists and two Anthropologists employed in cameron county today So if you have a young young person they're saying, you know, I really don't know what I want to do But i'm really interested in anthropology There's two and presumably they're probably Employees of the university maybe homeland security or something like that So you get the point though it sounds kind of silly but There are thousands of job in health care So you see the value of this image it is yours Please connect with me and i'm happy to share
036this with anybody in the school district that thinks it's valuable Any comments or observations about this or questions? Valuable. Yes meaningful next slide and i'm almost done here so I can so y'all can get back to what you're doing These are the top 10 Um, do you have a hedago county there noey on the right? Is this a comparative slide? So so in cameron county, these are the top occupations The number one the number the the most individuals That are employed here are personal care aides and so on and so forth And if you looked at hedago county is part of this slide We maybe cannot see right here But if you're wondering if we're any different than hedago county, we're not those jobs are the same here as they are over there next So
037finally I leave you with this The top left image over there is an image by the way, that's from a book called Memories of brownsville, it's made it's up by the brownsville harold put it out those are on the border summer beat on the river between brownsville and harland and Individuals probably men. I don't know if there are any women out there, but they're carrying they're burros carrying a barrel And you can see the steamship there back then before 1905 a steamship could actually Traverse the river not anymore But they would fill those barrels with water and go to the cities here and sell water That's how people got water before 1905 after 1905. There was electricity and there were pumps that made things differently on the bottom That's 1920 I think or 1915 in
038brownsville on 10th and elizabeth street That's a herd of cattle the guy in the in the hat on the right there on the cow on the on the horse there's a guy named john champion who was selling those cows to john mckellen who they named the city after And the reason it's in the middle of the street there is because that open window in that building is the banker And he was counting the cows to make sure that they were being honest with the transaction Okay, so why do I show you that because that was 120 years ago today by contrast We've got a 24 billion dollar Liquid natural gas facility that's going on at the port of brownsville And rockets the largest rocket in the history of mankind that are being launched there so
039It is an inflection point for us And for us to capitalize on the presence for the first time of these huge companies and Controversial is not the word, but there's some people that support and some that don't But from a workforce perspective the one thing we have never had were companies tier one companies Not just the state hasn't seen the country hasn't seen a 24 billion dollar investment in a greenfield project So it is a very important time for us to take that presence and catapult off it and finally change things once and for all I leave you with the following sentiment A micro message about the importance that a job has and I would invite you to think for a second When you're you've been in your backyard or in a phone call or
040in your living room when you get a phone call from Somebody in your circle who's lost their job or maybe you all have been in that situation. I have And that feeling of fear an uncertainty that we all have probably experienced That scenario highlights the great good that is the yield of jobs of being part of a meaningful team of having meaningful responsibilities of having meaningful skills of having meaningful sense of purpose a high sense of self-esteem A high sense of accomplishment having the opportunity for mental engagement having a meaningful and appropriate paycheck That is the power of work so We are proud to be part of your workforce board and know that whatever We can do in the future to complement the work that you all do We stand ready and dedicated to that.
041I'm happy to answer any questions Do we have data on how many workers lng and spacex? Have that are from the valley so the best Just a yes or no, I don't yes. Okay. I was just wondering and then what kind of contact can workforce solutions make with like our cte director and our ccmr directors to make sure that the Certificates and the industry-based certificates that we're offering here in samu to cisd will directly reflect a job opportunity in the future We have a robust relationship We were just talking about that right now to ensure that exactly happens and it's a very astute question Because we're held accountable to the texas workforce commission that under the watchful funding eye Which gets funded by department of labor and everything that we do is connected to credentialing
042and those jobs that pay And are as you saw there those top opportunities so Robust is the way I describe it Well, I appreciate the presentation and I look forward to all the things that our kids can get into and hopefully stay here in the valley And make well-paying And have well-paying good jobs. So thank you so much for the work that you do for our communities. Thank you all very much Moving on to consent agenda for academic services in order to promote efficient meetings The board may act upon more than one item by a single vote through the use of consent agenda Consent items placed on the end agenda shall be marked with an asterisk Consent items are items for which no board discussion is anticipated and for which the superintendent recommends approval Prior
043to the time which approval of consent agenda is had at the request of any member of the board of trustees Any item on consent agenda shall be removed and given individual consideration Agenda item 6.1 request for approval of the region 1 education service center library services agreement for the 2025 2026 school year questions consent agenda item 6.2 request for approval of the client services agreement for the welder qualification and certification with the certified welding and testing company incorporated cwt questions consent Agenda item 6.3 request for approval of mobile unit agreement between samny do cisd and the university of texas health science center At houston for the 2025 2026 school year questions consent agenda item 6.4 request for approval of the partnership agreement between samny do cisd and workforce solutions cameron for the 2025 2027 school
044years questions consent agenda item 6.5 request for approval of the memorandum of understanding between samny do cisd Positive redirection center and recovery center of cameron county for the 25 26 school year questions consent agenda item 6.6 request for approval of the memorandum of understanding between samny do cisd and stellar ed resources stems program for the 2526 school year questions consent Agenda item 6.7 request for approval of the sammy do cisd student bullying and intervention handbook for the 25 26 school year questions consent consent agenda for business and finance agenda item 7.1 request for approval of cash account for the month of july 2025 questions consent request for approval of 7.2 request for approval of comparison of revenue and expenditures to budget for the month of july 2025 questions consent Agenda item 7.3 request for approval
045of tax collection report for the month of july 2025 questions consent Agenda item 7.4 request for approval of check disbursements report for the month of july 2025 questions consent Agenda item 7.5 request for approval of gifts slash b quest for the 25 26 school year questions consent Agenda item 7.6 request for approval of budget amendments questions consent Agenda item 7.7 request for approval of purchases over $50,000 questions consent Agenda item 7.8 request for approval to extend bid proposals on rfp 07 24 gms general merchandise and services questions consent Agenda item 7.9 request for approval of the renewal of texas association of school boards unemployment compensation questions consent Agenda item 7.10 request for approval of the memorandum of agreement between samu cisd and region 1 esc peems cooperative questions consent Consent agenda for administration 8.1 request
046for approval of revisions to the 25 26 compensation plan questions consent Agenda item 8.2 request for approval of the 2025 2026 texas teachers evaluation support system appraisers questions consent Agenda item 8.3 request for approval of the 2025 2026 texas teachers evaluation support system t-test calendar questions consent agenda item 8.4 request for approval of the guardian security program questions consent Agenda item 8.5 request for approval of policy update 125 questions Consent at this time. I'd like to entertain a motion to approve all of the consent agenda items agenda items 6.1 1 to 8.5 so moved second. I've got a motion by miss Hernandez in a second by mr. Badial all those in favor Consent agenda items approved Moving on to action agenda Agenda item 9.1 discussion and possible approval of the memorandums of understanding between samu
047cisd the city of san benito and cameron county Mr. Perez I believe miss cornet. This is One of your else mo use that we're working with Yes, sir, this is a renewal Renewal agreement for the upcoming school year. What's the agreement on? Mr. Flores, I'm so sorry. It's fine. Thank you rene Let me lower this down because I can't reach Keep it short Well, uh the mo you agreements that you have In front of you those mo you agreements are for emergencies So last flood When we have some of the weather that changes that the school districts as we do have buses school buses that were able to allow cameron county emergency to be able to utilize those buses And also for the city of san benito to be able to utilize those buses So
048last flood we would have been able to assist them with some of the buses to be able to transport Uh citizens to different locations different spots that they have pick up location drop-off locations cameron county would be doing the same in the event of a major emergency Uh to the extent of a hurricane That we need to evacuate. Uh, we are the hub san benito cisd is the hub And so we would be the point of transporting Uh citizens from everybody everywhere from this side of cameron county all the way up to a designated location down to san antonio and at that point Uh, we would receive we should be looking at receiving funding as well where we can apply for that funding Thank you. Mr. Flores for all the work that y'all do in
049cooperation with our surrounding entities At this time, I'd like a motion to approve I'll move I've got a motion by mr. Gomez and a second by mr. Dana all those in favor Agenda item approved agenda item 9.2 discussion and possible approval of the memorandum of understanding between san benito Cisd and buckner children And family services for the 2025 26 school year Mr. Betis, I know this is another mo you renewal They came in a little bit after our committees So we added this one also This is with buckner children family services, it's just the mo you that we sign with them every year Does anybody have any questions on the mo you? No, I motion to approve the mo you okay. I've got a motion by miss hernandez and a second by mr Villareal all
050those in favor agenda item approved agenda item 9.3 discussion and possible approval of the memorandum of understanding between san antonio cisd And united migrant opportunity services migrant and season head start program Umos mms hs for the 2025 2026 school year so this is another mo you that we've had for several years with umos and head start and this is basically the Their students that they get Uh for that have migrant services. We we provide a lot of them. We are able to meet with the families. We're able to Get those extra help. Also, we're just We're able to provide our migrants department services to head start and then they do the same for us A motion for agenda item 9.3. So move i've got a motion by mr Lopez to approve agenda item 9.3 and
051a second by mr. Gomez all those in favor agenda item approved agenda item 9.4 discussion and possible approval of the memorandum of understanding between san antonio cisd and the university of texas at rio grand valley texas hybrid college core for the 2025 26 school year Miss cornet you want to help this one put in around the spot. This isn't renewal This is just um, they have an advisor that's available at our college center To work with our students that support our students as they're applying for colleges and filling out the paperwork that's necessary for that are these um this Advisor are they available on those nights that we have? For the seat for the juniors and seniors to come in and speak with them. Yes There is a schedule miss romero's is here and she
052does work with them on scheduling among those events when we do have all Those different events that we have in the evenings I do have a question. Is it one or multiple advisors I believe we have one mr. Meadows is there But this one is the same person for the whole year Okay, I motion to approve I've got a motion by miss Hernandez second and a second by mr. Lopez all those in favor Agenda item 9.5 discussion and possible approval of the memorandum of under of agreement between samuelsa esti and region one Education service center esti ed spire tsi services for the 2025 2026 school year Miss cornet miss cornet. Yes, this is also a renewal that we have This is a new program that we utilized last year That we found very beneficial because
053it allows our teachers quick access to be able to see all of the students in their classes And be able to see their tsi results And so therefore they're able able to support and help us ensure that students are getting the appropriate Tutorials to help them become successful on the tsi assessments. Does this um Show like which areas a student may be deficient in. Yes, absolutely. Perfect Great. I do have a question. I know this program was also Designed to help us track the student's completion for performance outcome bonuses Did that help in that aspect? So it's it allows us to track their success how many times they attempt the rla The spent the english or the the math assessment and we're able to track them that way We are do have another program that
054we purchased that is able to help us determine the outcome bonus overall as we're looking for Total ccmr. This one is specifically The way we're using it specifically for tsi tracking. Okay At this time i'd entertain a motion to approve agenda item 9.5. I've got a motion by mr. Gomez And a second by mr. Vana all those in favor motion approved agenda item 9.6 Discussion and possible approval of the academic agreement between samuels asd and texas south most college for the 2025 2026 school year Miss cornet This is the renewal that miss domes was alluding to this is also We get advisors that come to our college center and support our students as they're filling out applications and preparing for college readiness This is the tsc agreement You skipped 9.6 This is our agreement for
055our dual enrollment Oh, yes, i'm, sorry. I was I thought it was americorps but dual enrollment. That's also renewal This is the college that we use for our dual enrollment at our high school for our associate's degrees Any questions? Wait at this time i'd like to entertain a motion to approve agenda item 9.6 I've got a motion by mr. Gomez And a second by mr. Dana all those in favor motion approved agenda item 9.7 Discussion and possible approval of the americorps in our local agreement between the samuels cisd and the university of texas At rio grand valley utrgb for the 2526 school year And this is the one which is similar to the other one to the other one Lots of mous today Anybody have any questions? I've got a motion by ms. Hernandez and
056a second by mr. Virial all those in favor motion approved agenda item 9.8 Discussion and possible approval of the amendment to the samuels cisd high school course catalog for the 2025 2026 school year So there were some recent updates to cte programming and um after reviewing our alignment in our programs to study There were some recommendations for some updates and so there's just a couple of courses that we've included in here for cte Are these brand new courses or? No, one of them is a course that now correlates with different programs of study and so therefore allows for greater opportunity for our students to Be once they get that when they have different choices. Okay, so this is like a Okay, do we happen to have our course? I know our course catalog is online
057but is there like We will be updating our ccmr catalog that we presented last year once all of this is approved to correlate with that I guess more pictures is what i'm asking Yes Okay Um anybody else have any questions? Okay at this time i'd like a motion to approve the course catalog so Second i've got a motion by ms. Hernandez and a second by mr. Virial all those in favor motion approved agenda item 9.9 Discussion and possible action to authorize administration to award bobby maro lighting project and bobby maro scoreboard replacement project To cooperative approved vendors subject to satisfactory financing terms and conditions very exciting Do we have a motion to approve? So I know we've been talking about this for a while We had mentioned it. I think in may or may board
058me that we were going to have summer projects. We we've been looking at Financing We do know that the scoreboard is something that we've been looking at for a while It is outdated. We do have constant repairs to make on it And you know like we heard earlier is It's small So our limitations when it comes to bringing in resources and bringing in sponsorships. We're limited I know we entertained it last month with a different Loan procedure that we weren't comfortable with So we were able to sit with one of these companies that the one that we're recommending is actually the cheapest of them for this is for the scoreboard and they have a 4.5 APR financing which is very similar to what we had before one year not to make a payment It doesn't
059affect our budget this year and then we have five to seven years on whatever we decide to make the payments on that it also comes with a Marketing proposal they the company sits with us. They help us get vendors. They help us get sponsors You know, I know we are I can say right now if approved it would not be for this football season But it would We'd be looking at maybe december Possibly by mid january being complete maybe february early february and we still have other You know, we have graduation. We have track. We have other we have soccer going on It would also give us time to learn the programs especially on a screen that is You know, it's very different. I know our technology department I know our pr department would have
060to learn how to use these things. So that's why we were recommending a sports We did get we did get several quotes, but a sports is the one that we were recommending all of those marketing Marketing promotions that you kind of mentioned can start before the stadium even gets Yes, so so the agreement with the company is the moment we sign a contract or have a p.o One it starts our clock on our year payment So from the day we sign our contract we have a year to make the first payment not the payment in full But first payment but better yet before they even start they will come down and they work with us to try to get sponsorships You know, we're we're probably one of the only districts that don't do I'm just
061talking about football now like Somebody sponsoring every touchdown somebody sponsoring every first down we go to westlaco and we hear the you know sponsored by touchdown sponsored by you and it's it's ways to bring monies to our students to our To our district and it's really wasted for it to pay itself We've had other discussions on how we can utilize a big screen at bobby morrow, you know fundraisers Last year we had a fantastic fall festival You know, we can just utilize it in so many other ways and it goes the same way with the lighting the lighting Started two years ago I think we were probably at a neighboring district and everybody said whoa Why don't we have that? It's true. Why don't we have that almost every other? Valley team is now putting
062these lighting systems one. It's led. It's going to save on electricity I'm not going to say it's going to pay itself, but it does save on electricity. We had four different quotes Ranging from eight hundred thousand dollars for the lighting system to three hundred and fifty thousand dollars We have looked at these vendors. We are recommending a company. They're very reputable out of austin They're called tech line sports lighting. We they've done several stadiums. They're uil compliant to come up. They come in at three hundred and forty seven thousand 130 this one we would recommend that we would take from the fund balance We do have the option to go out for financing but something like this I was speaking over cfo today is probably something we can just take from our fund balance and
063Find ways to save money throughout the year because of the budget that we've already approved so sir as far as As far as a scoreboard and as far as that marketing tool that it comes I think it's extremely to give our community an opportunity to You know to showcase their their business I guess on that scoreboard and then also it's a great token of appreciation Uh, you know for our community as well And you know, uh all the community members that come out and and we can showcase You know that we go above and beyond to to provide them with with uh, you know with nice Uh opportunities to to showcase their kids And and everybody, you know and everybody else that that that wants to showcase and give give us an opportunity to showcase
064their business I think it's a great I think it's a great opportunity Have a question for you This 347 that you just mentioned is that for the scoreboard and the lighting or just the lighting just for the lighting the lighting would come in at 347 130 And the scoreboard is at 846 792 now the scoreboard is the one that has the financing options of being paid over five to seven years And again with a one-year deferred payment and this is less than that what they were offering us the last time. Yes Okay, great now the other question I have I heard some of our community members here saying that the speakers were pretty bad and I'm going out there and You know, is that part of the scoreboard or part of the lighting? So actually
065the speakers are brand new from last year. We did replace all of the speakers last year um The only thing that we were missing are the subwoofers Subwoofers are being installed next Tuesday. Mr. Aguilera. Correct. We had to rent a very large crane But they are going up. We already we've purchased them. They just were not installed The speaker the subwoofer speaker was not installed, but we do have brand new speakers throughout the stadium Okay, where are we installing those? They will be above the press box on the poles mr. Aguilera On the roof up they they we had our welders put a frame out there for support the press box Yes I have a question. Um, how long will the lights take? So From what we were told If we say we approve this
066today we went through the po process It would take four weeks to get all of the supplies in and then they pick a seven-day window seven-day window eddie And they would take them a week to do it. They need obviously the large cranes and That's that's the plan. That's what I was gonna say and they better be purple So do you have an exact date more muscle miles we haven't We haven't talked about an exact date, but we were kind of hoping for one of our buy weeks or one of our away weeks um We also have the idea that I know that greyhound stadium We don't use anymore because of lighting so we're kind of trying to think of repurposing what we take down To try to help out greyhound stadium and we start
067using that also I know we've had different ideas for greyhound stadium But that might save us some money and not having to purchase new lights out there. So with these $350,000 will affect us on the budget As far as for christmas bonus for our staff our teachers I know i've been asking for other departments uh races especially for our first responders police officers And it's just I'm not Against the lighting. It's it's great Everything for our kids but I would like to to take this into consideration and Let you guys know that our first responders they've been Making less money than a lot of our surrounding districts that we're losing a lot of officers And the experience it's very important, you know safety first and I would like for you to take into consideration, you
068know that if we are making this Spend you know Don't forget our Also our teachers in our department. I've already met with the chief. I did tell him I was speaking with him. It's erica About a study we were doing a study, you know across the districts to see on the specifically our police officers pays We are looking at it. We understand that Other districts are paying more now. So we have to be competitive but again, we have to We also have something that we offer is the guardian program also, but again, you know, we we are looking at the pay to Specifically for them to try to get them more competitive because you're correct. We're And your chief tells me all the time. We're training police officers here They're great police officers and they're
069we're losing them to other people. Yeah, we had the same situation with the transportation also where we we're giving all this training to our Bus drivers and they were taking off they were taking off to other districts because they're getting paid more but You know, but we have started the study for the police officers trying to see how we can do to to keep them Sounds good Everything for our great hands So move I motion to approve. Okay. I've got a motion to approve the agenda item 9.9 And i've got a motion by mr. Lopez in a second by mr. Villarreal all those in favor motion approved Agenda item 10 closed meeting in accordance with the texas government code open meetings act The board may move into closed session for the following reasons section 551.071
070For the purpose of a private consultation with the board's attorney on any or all subjects or matters authorized by law section 551.074 For the purpose of considering the appointment employment evaluation reassignment duties discipline or dismissal of a public Oh, it's not on this one. Give me one second Yeah, I have it online too Yeah, agenda item 9.10 Discussion and possible approval on the hiring resolution for contractual personnel for the 25-26 school year So I put this on the agenda and this is just A resolution that will grant mr. Betta's the hiring authority for the 25-26 school year Several years ago This authority was taken away from the superintendent at that time And I felt that this summer I was questioning why we were delaying some of our administrative hirings and I Failed to realize that
071this was still in place. So I asked mr. Torres To go ahead and put this resolution on the agenda this month And it's just giving mr. Betta's the authority to hire key personnel so that we can make sure that our district is moving forward in a timely fashion I've got a motion by mr. Lopez in a second by mr. Gomez all those in favor Now we're moving into the closed meeting agenda item 10 closed meeting In accordance with the texas government code open meetings act the board may move into closed session for the following reasons Section five five one point zero seven one for the purpose of a private consultation with the board's attorney on any or all subjects or matters authorized by law Section five five one point zero seven four for the purpose
072of considering the appointment employment evaluation reassignment duties Discipline or dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear complaints or charges against a public officer or employee section five five one point zero seven six for the purpose of deliberating security Devices or security audits and are deliberating the deployment or specific occasions for implementation of security personnel or devices section five five one point zero eight nine for the purpose of deliberating regarding security assessments or deployments relating to information resources technology Network security information or the deployment or specific occasions for implementation of security personnel critical infrastructure or security devices It is 6 37 and we are moving into closed session It's 8 15 and we're getting back into our open meeting Agenda item 11.1 employment resignations retirements and termination Yes, I ask that the board
073approve the employment resignation retirement and terminations as discussed in executive session I've got a motion by ms. Hernandez and a second by mr. Gomez all those in favor Approved agenda item 11.2 discussion possible approval of the samny o cisd threat assessment plan Yes, I ask for the approval of the samny o cisd threat assessment plan as discussed in executive session I've got a motion by ms. Hernandez and a second by mr. Villarreal all those in favor Agenda item approved agenda item 11.3 discussion and possible approval of texas education agency tea k-12 cyber security initiative Also has discussed an executive session as for the approval of the texas education agency k-12 cyber security initiative I've got a motion by ms. Hernandez and a second by mr. Reyna all those in favor Motion approved unless there is
074any dissent. We will adjourn this meeting at 8 16 meeting adjourned