001Okay moving on to our special board meeting it is 7 52 p.m. And we are opening our special board meeting. Roll call. Dr. Ariel Cruz-Vela. Present. Crystal Hernandez. Present. Israel Villarreal. Present. Rudy Corona. Present. Rutoso Gomez. Present. Orlando Lopez. Alex Reyna. Present. Alfredo Perez. Present. Tony Torres. Okay no public comment. No public comment. Moving on to action agenda. Agenda item 3.1 discussion and possible approval of Blue Cross Blue Shield's employee group health insurance plan for the 2025-2026 school year. So the administration recommends that we go with the presentation that we had during the the workshop so I don't know if y'all have any other questions for Mr. Everett. Want to talk about it some more? Can we take this to the back Tony? Legal issues. Financial issues. You have questions we can ask them here.
002Okay so okay so I need a motion to move agenda item 3.1 to the closed session. So will. And a second? Okay all those in favor? We're taking that into a closed session. Agenda item 3.2 discussion and possible approval of purchases over $50,000. Mr. Cortez do you have a list of items? Is your mic work there? For $34,430 you want me to read the amounts? Yeah have you all seen the list? Do y'all have any questions for any of them? A lot of these are other programs that we are using for our academics department that we're just we're trying to get them approved so we can get them ordered before school starts. Any questions? No questions. Okay a motion to approve purchases over $50,000. I've got a motion by Mr. Coronan and a second by
003Mr. Gomez. All those in favor? Motion passes. Agenda item 3.3 discussion and possible approval of revisions to board policy DNA. Mrs. Arthur? Go ahead. This is just a TASB proposal for the waivers. We do not because of the TIA and because we don't want any skewed data we do not want teacher eligible teachers that are eligible for the TIA to have a waiver so that's we're trying to take that wording out of our policy. Okay so this is just a change of policy DNA to remove the waiver for TIA eligible teachers. Yes. All those in favor? Or I need a motion? I've got a motion by Ms. Hernandez and a second by Mr. Villarreal. All those in favor? Motion approved. Agenda item 3.4 discussion and possible approval of revisions to the board policy of IEC.
004EIC. Oh my gosh. Mrs. Cornett? So this goes on class ranking it's just cleaning up the policy this had previously already been approved by the board but it was still on our actual policy document and so it's going back and just kind of cleaning that up. Okay I've got a motion by Mr. Gomez and a second by Mr. Reyna. All those in favor? Motion passes. Agenda item 3.5 discussion possible approval of revisions to board policy of FNCE. So this is just the proposed changes from TASB for the new cell phone bill that is going to be implemented into the schools and this is just their proposed changes. I've got a motion by Ms. Hernandez and a second by Mr. Corona. All those in favor? Motion passes. Discussion possible approval of revisions to board policy FD.
005This is just based on our recommendation that we submitted to TASB to not allow homeschooled students to participate in our sports program so we're putting that into our policy. So this one actually comes up with this summer of the legislation it's they're gonna leave it up to the districts to decide if a student is not enrolled in our district right their homeschooled specifically will we allow them to participate in UIL sports. I can give you my opinion and I can give you the opinion of most school districts in the valley are all agreeing to say no we don't feel that should be we would rather that we have our students participating in a UIL sport not open it up to allow students because one I think we're gonna have students say well if I can
006stay home and still play then they're gonna stay home and still play. The other thing too is I have the kids going to school for eight hours a day playing the sport after school while another student gets to do what he wants during the day and then come play a sport. So there's just a lot of inequality in my opinion but it is up to you all. So can we keep a track of parents that come and ask just so that we can have a number of them? I can tell you that we haven't had any in the last two years. I've got a motion by Mr. Corona and a second by Mr. Gomez all those in favor? Motion passes. Agenda item 3.7 discussion and possible approval of the acceptable use agreement. So they just
007changed the wording based on TASB's guidelines and that's just for our technology use of any technology devices that our students and employees use so we were just trying to get that approved. I've got a motion by Mr. Corona and a second by Ms. Hernandez all those in favor? Agenda item 3.8 discussion and possible approval of revisions to the 25-26 compensation plan. So for the compensation plan there was just some minor changes one of them was just title changes for the first one and then there was already a person receiving the orchestra assistant so we were just putting that language into the to the compensation book and it was just to have the distinction between the two and the other one we're just it's just cleaning up we took off a title on a clerk and
008the other one was for the coordinator for ASP we have one employee that's going to be overseeing two sites and so we were increasing that stipend. CFO? That's the assistant superintendent it was just a title change. Okay so we're I'm asking that we right now we currently have we have a vacancy in as a CFO but I'm gonna ask that we do it as an assistant superintendent of finance and operations slash CFO. We actually used to have it in our district that way and actually before Ms. Mata left she was already seeing finance and some of the operations we're going to go back to a lot of the operations that were always under their maintenance HVAC will be under the transportation food services. It's just a title change. Paygrade didn't change or anything. We didn't
009change anything with the pay grade. We will be I know it's not part of that when we advertise it it'll be superintendency certification preferred. Can I get a motion to approve the 2025-2026 compensation plan? I've got a motion I've got a motion by Ms. Hernandez and a second by Mr. Beatty. All those in favor? Motion passes. Discussion possible approval of the student code of conduct for the 25-26 school year. It's it's on the attachment. Does anybody have any questions for the code of conduct changes? All the changes are highlighted within the document. Motion to approve? I've got I've got a motion by Mr. Hold on a second by Mr. Dana. All those in favor? Okay 3.9 discussion and possible approval sorry 3.10 discussion possible approval of the student handbook for the 25-26 school year. Same
010thing it's on the attachment and all of the highlights are there. Does anybody have any questions? I've got a motion by Ms. Hernandez and a second by Mr. Villareal. All those in favor? Agenda item 3.11 discussion impossible approval of the employee handbook for the 25-26 school year. Say again? Employee handbook. Yeah the first one was student. I've got a motion by Mr. Corona and a second by Mr. Dana. All those in favor? Agenda item passed. Agenda item 3.12 discussion impossible approval of the 25-26 Texas principal evaluation support system TPES appraisers. Mr. Perez? So all of the appraisers are on the list. We have all of our administrators on this list so the principals and directors that are will be doing the evaluations for the teachers. I've got a motion by Ms. Hernandez and a second
011by Mr. Villareal. All those in favor? Agenda item passed. And then agenda item 3.13 discussion impossible approval of the 25-26 Texas principal evaluation support system TPES calendar. This goes with the appraisers it's just up to approve the calendar of when we will be doing the evaluations. The cutoff dates when we can and when we can't. We do this every year. Got a motion by Ms. Hernandez and a second by Mr. Reyna. All those in favor? Agenda item passed. It is 8.04 and we are moving into a 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 for 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
012the purpose of 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. It is 8.04 and we are moving into closed session. It's 9.30 and we're gonna reconvene into open session. Agenda item 3.1 discussion impossible approval of Blue Cross Blue Shield employee group health insurance plan for 25-26 school year. Mr. Perez? It's just discussed in executive session. I ask that you all approve the BCVS employee group health insurance plan for the 25-26 school year. As presented. A motion to approve. I got a motion by Mr. Verreal and a second by Mr. Corona. All those in favor? Motion passes. Agenda item 4.1 employment resignations retirements and terminations. Yes as discussed in executive session I ask that you all
013approve the employment resignation retirement and terminations. I've got a motion by Mr. Gomez and a second by Ms. Hernandez. All those in favor? Agenda item passed. Agenda item 4.2 discussion and consideration of employment of after-school program director. Mr. Perez? Yes I ask that you approve Ms. Celia Bonuelos as our after-school program director. I've got a motion by Mr. Corona. Second. And a second by Mr. Verreal. All those in favor? Motion passed. It is 9 31. Can I get a motion to adjourn? Motion by Ms. Hernandez. Second by Mr. Reyna. All those in favor? Meeting adjourned. Thank you everybody have a good night.