001I'm Mr. Orto, president of Wasqud Board of Trustees. This special board meeting is being conducted in compliance with the Texas Open Meeting Act. Notice of this meeting has been posted online for at least 72 hours. A recording of this meeting is being made and will be available to the public at a later date. It is 5:35 and I will call this meeting to order. I will call each board member's name and say please say present. Mrs. Jackie Susta present. Dr. Hime Rodriguez present. Mr. Ben Castillo present. Coacher Cerna present. And Mr. Mark de los Santos present. And myself present. Coach Quo was out of town so he couldn't be here today. Uh so we still have a quorum. Public comments. Carlos, there is one. Okay. Mrs. uh Miss Jubel this Yes. Will you please come
002up to the podium? Dr. Dr. Hime will read you uh some uh you want to go ahead and um go ahead and identify yourself with your address, please. Uh my name is Julie. I live in Bales and I live in Stone Street. That's my homestead. Okay. Pursuant to the Texas Open Meeting Act, the board of trustees may not deliberate on any comment made by a member of the public on a subject that is not included on the agenda posted with notice of this meeting. As per the Texas Attorney General, the scope of board discussion for a subject not part of the meeting agenda is limited to only a proposal by a board member to place the subject on a future board agenda. Sp specific factual information or recitation of existing policy may be furnished in
003response to inquiries, but the board shall not deliberate or decide regarding any subject that is not included on the agenda posted with notice of the meeting. Audience participation at a board meeting is limited to the portion of the meeting designated for that purpose. At all other times during the during a board meeting, the audience shall not enter into discussion or debate on matters being considered by the board unless recognized by the presiding officer. No public comment presentation shall exceed 3 minutes. Any disruptive behavior by any speaker may result in the speaker's removal from participation in the meeting. Please be mindful of using names or personally identifiable information as there is no immunity from defamatory comments while participating in public comments. and I'll start the three minutes when you start talking. Okay. Um well, I'm what
004brought me here today was the concern of a a rumor that was supposed to be hired, but I see that that person isn't in the room, but I'm still going to say something. So, um I I just came up here to say like we keep seeing like the continual perverting of the hiring process and the circumventing of the of vetting qualified candidates. Um because you see you once passed over and you see questionably hired people that it's like how are they getting hired? Um so I came here to say that I think y'all need to look at whoever is making these decisions. Like I know that I don't have the power to like oh you hire this person and that's not what I'm trying to do. I personally know some of these individuals that were
005being considered and I know what they're capable of and I know the damage that they cause. So, um, rumor or not rumored, the person's not here. So, I just came over here to say that you I don't know what the hiring process is, who the hiring committee is, but how is it that they keep hiring questionable after questionable people? You guys have lost like um what is it? Two assistant principles like like like what's going on? And I know it's not the school boards. I'm not trying to blame you guys, but whoever is in charge, you have to start questioning them on what was the criteria for them hiring those people to begin with. Because this is leading to the questionably hiring of people is leading to um demoralization of the staff. They see that
006the people who hardly work get promoted because they have connections allegedly and these people get demoralized. that ruins the campus survey. I think that's what you guys are talking about, right? When you say campus survey, like it ruins that because what is that person doing there? We all know what they did. You can't hide the truth. And people know the truth of certain u people that have been hired and promoted. Yeah. And there's Okay. And there's like a page in the Weaver report, for example. I'm not going to mention the page or I'm not going to mention again. I've already been up here before. And those people in there that corrupted the hiring system, none of them had any anything. They did not get any reprimands or anything whatsoever. As a matter of fact, most
007of them got promoted. One of them actually retired. All of them have been promoted after corrupting the system. That is demoralizing. That is humiliating to people who come up there and they apply over and over again yet you pass them over because I don't know or people pass them over for whatever it is hiring committee or whatever. It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing that you guys have to be up here yet I have to be or there's another meeting over another replacement. I'm happy for whomever is going to get placed there. I I congratulate them, but there has to be questions. There's something wrong here. Thank you, Miss Fes. All right, let's go to item number four. Or Hold on, let me President, is it okay if we just do it in open session? Yes, we're gonna
008I'd like to go to executive though. We have one executive. Well, we'll go with what the majority decides. Dr. Vera, you would like to have it like we did the last time. Yes. Correct. So, uh I don't have to put to a vote, but I will ask each board member and then we can decide whether to go to executive or stay here. And I and I'll just say for my fellow trustes is that I'd rather what I have to say I'll still I'll say it in an open session. I've never been afraid to say it in open session, but I would probably advise that we go to the open session so I could share the information that I have with you and then ask the questions that I need to. But we can do it
009in open discussion as well too. I have no problem with doing that. It doesn't violate open discussion policies. But that's the only thing I would just like to recommend. Uh let's follow the agenda. I'll do it in public too. But what would you recommend? Professional. I'm asking we go to executive. Have nothing to hide. We can do it in open. Okay. Okay. So Mr. Would you rather have it here or an executive? Uh, I'm fine with whatever. I mean, it doesn't matter to me, but Okay, Dr. He I'm good with executive. Executive. Yeah. Okay. Mr. I'm fine either way. Whatever y'all want to do. I just You can go executive and Mr. Mark. Executive. Okay. So, it is 5:42 and we'll go into executive session. What's that? Oh, the items. Can you read the items?
010Yes, I'm going to read them. Yeah. I just want to clarify before close meeting to discuss the following personal matters discussing uh uh discussion regarding superintendent recommendation for the position of principal for central middle school and discussion regarding superintendent recommendation for the position of principal for Mary Hope Middle School. So we will go into executive session. All right. It is uh we reconvene an open meeting and it is 6 pm. Item 5A, discussion of possible action regarding superintendent's recommendation for the position of principal for Central Midd School. Dr. Vera, let me first say that that superintendent, I have a committee. We review the applicants. They're recommended. There's no favoritism. We go there. We and we select them. Now, sometimes you pick them and sometimes they fumble the ball. But I can tell you the committee
011myself, it's a fair process. And I concur that I've known Dr. for many years a superintendent and uh he's always had a committee for every uh position especially principal position and central office positions. He always has a committee and a superintendent he's got to recommend the best fit for that campus and people need to realize that you know and and and move forward and you can see a lot of principles that he has recommended in the past how successful they have been. And at one time when he was here uh for I believe eight years in in a row, nine years in a row, there were stars because the school district was recognized because of the principles and of course the staff that was recommended for many years, you know, and uh sometimes people are
012going to be upset of who is hired. That's just life, you know. That's life. But as a superintendent, he has the right as a superintendent to have the committee that he recommends to hire a person. Then he brings to the board. All we do is if we want him as a superintendent and he's doing the job that he needs to do, the majority of the time us as as as board members are going to support him. That's just the way it is. Okay, Dr. All right. So, uh, Central Middle School Uh the committee is recommending Dorothy. Sorry. Second. We have a motion from Mrs. Titan and second by Mr. Who? Castillo. Oh, Mr. Castillo. Any discussion? No, I just wanted to say that I agree with Dr. Nea as well that you hear these comments
013of individuals, you know, and people that share their concerns, but the reality is is that the process has been improved significantly since the past. the committee, the d the directives, you know, uh just the whole entire process itself has been fair and equitable to to staff. It's open to everyone. If it's interd district, it's open to everyone within the district if it's open to the outside and they have the documentation and all the processes in place to be highly effective. So, I just want to comment and piggyback off of that as well. Thank you, Mr. Los Santos. All in favor of the recommendation for Central Middle School, please say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. Dr. Vetta, you want to introduce Dorothy and and again as I did last week uh I would like the
014board members to make a comment uh on on your Mr. Mia. Okay. Mr. Sta, any comments for Mrs. uh Miss I just want to say congratulations of course. I've heard very great positive things about your work ethic and you know, you're the one of the people back there that's running the show and you know exactly what you're doing at Central Middle School. You have plenty of experience. So, I'm just very proud of you and we're excited to have you um be the leader of Central Middle School. Congratulations, Dr. [Applause] Same. You know, well deserved. Welld deserved, ma'am. And and you know, I'm uh you know, really happy for you and and I know you're going to do a great job there at Central and good luck to you. we have, you know, you have our
015support with whatever you need. Okay, Mr. Castillo. Yes. So, I don't have the honor and pleasure of knowing you personally, but Dr. speaks very highly of you and recommended you without any hesitation and so I support Dr.'s recommendation and trust his judgment and I wish you luck in your upcoming uh school year and I hope you do very well and continue the the legacy of excellence that Mr. Rodellis has done. So, Shvna, yeah, congratulations. seen you work firsthand side by side there at at Westco High School. I know and now that you moved on to as an assistant principal, I many good things. So, uh congratulations and I wish you all the best. Mr. Los Santos. Yes. Um were you at at Wesley Kohai in 1998? Okay. Now, I remember Huh. I I just wanted
016to clarify. I was like, "Okay, is it her? Cuz she still looks the same. your wife. Oh, I know. So, this is amazing. I was just telling Coach Senna right now. So, I want to congratulate you as well, too, uh, uh, Mr. Ornellas when he was there as principal with the excellent job. I know you're going to carry on and do the same thing and and our kids are in good hands and and this is just kind of an amazing moment because, you know, every time I run into everybody that I knew when I was going through these hallways as a student, it just kind of takes me back. So, congratulations. So, thank you. [Applause] And I echo the sentiment of all the board members. Best of luck. Uh you got Mr. Onelas who has
017done an awesome job there. Of course, like Dr. Evetta used to say, you have to surround yourself with good people in order to be successful. So I'm assuming that Mr. Onellas surrounded himself with good people, which he has. And Central, I believe, how how many years have you been there, Mr. Onellas? Five years, sir. Five years. And excellent production. So best of luck. Uh that's a tough school to to come into because it's always been very uh scores have been always been very good. So best of luck. No, I said no pressure. No pressure. All right. Uh 5B discussion on possible action regarding superintendent's recommendation for position of principal for Mary Hope Middle School. Mr. President, if I may, uh, if I could, I know Dr. Rietta has, uh, presented his recommendation to the board
018on this, and I don't think that there's any, uh, uh, any issue with that recommendation. I just I think there's a housekeeping kind of a protocol that was brought up to us. And for that reason, I would like to make a motion to table and look very much forward uh, for that recommendation at the next board meeting. Okay. Second. Okay. So, we have a second from uh, first uh, um, motion by Mr. Castillo, second by Mr. Mark de Los Santos to table this item for housekeeping. It's just housekeeping on our compensation plan. Uh yes. Any other discussion? Just that as discussed, we'll bring it back in the I think the June 23rd meeting the this month. Correct. It'll be in a couple of weeks. Any other comments? [Music] All right. All in favor of the
019recommendation, please say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries and it is 607 and a German. Okay.