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Crystal City ISD Board Meeting

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Source
YouTube / CrystalCity ISD
Date
2025-04-16
Location
Zavala County, TX
Material
Transcript
Extent
2,124 words · about 12 min
Collected
2026-06-20

Transcript

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0019:04 on the time is 9:04. Yes. Uh first thing uh consideration to approve uh the lease the building located at 50 805 is Crockett Street. The recommendation is that the board of trustees approve the lease of the building located at 805 East Crockett Street with the corrections that we discussed in closed. The motion by Mr. Roier. Do we have a second by Espinosa? Questions, concerns? If not, all in favor? Motion carries. 76 on uh B. Uh no action will be uh taken on that one. Seven. Uh consent action items. Uh we have a couple of minute minutes. March safe from March 10, March 12 March 29. I don't know if some of you were wraps on or or we just uh you wrap maybe you can abstain so we can take all of them at

002at one time. There's some questions I had on on which one on the March 6A the open session. I want to see if we can get it noted that I had requested the roll call vote and was denied. But also the motion was to be extended till the till April 7th, 2026, not 2027. What in the motion as read by Mr. Bonia was till April 7th, 2026, not April 7th, 2027. In the minutes it's written as 2027, but I also wanted it to be noted that I had requested a roll call vote and it was denied. Okay. Any more questions? Uh if not all in favor against 61. Uh were those changes going to be made or what's the process of that being made? on it took notation of the of the changes. So the

003motion would be to approve the minutes as amended. As a what? As amended. As as amended with with the amendments if that's what you all he's voting against it. So it's just uh No, but the but he's requesting that the minutes be amended to show his and the the date of the extension. Mhm. So I'm trying to make the motion and you're going with the amendment that Yes. Okay. And and then one abstension because I wasn't in the meeting or Okay. And you voted. You still second it. Okay. All in favor? Uh abstension. Okay. Oh, I missed one other meeting. So uh it was absent one meeting. So motion carries. Uh 61. Uh and then we have the uh approve the uh monthly bills for February March uh 2025 doesn't have a date. Is it

004all I don't want to sorry the minutes? The bills. The bills. The bills. Yeah, they're all the same. Do I have a motion to approve the uh monthly bills for March 2025? Motion second. I had I had a couple of questions on the bills. I just wanted clarification. What is the CCISD clearing fund and why what are all these um is this like an accumulation of bills? Do you want to answer Mr. Martinez's uh question? So, is that all for one month or or is it like an accumulation? We're stacking up. It's accumulation. Accumulation for a couple of months. He's answering your questions. Midnight. So, it's for like a couple of months accumulation or is it one month of accumulation? Accumulation. a couple of months. Is that typical standard practice to accumulate minutes? The other

005thing I mean uh before uh we we do have a motion right uh discussing the motion. Okay. uh on the minutes or on the bill. Uh it's in policy that if you have a question uh that's why they they fall under consent. You have a question you call the superintendent and she will get you the information and if you're not satisfied with the answers then you can take it out of consent and and we'll discuss it here. and and I understand that I mean at the same time we received the packet 72 hours before which I don't feel is enough time to accurately go through the entire packet right now that's her policy that uh that under consent uh you call the superintendent and if you're not satisfied with her answer then you you we

006will discuss it here for example on this thing that you were asking well I want to get it out consent because I have this question and and we'll discuss it. I want to remove this item because I have a couple of questions. So, do I need to make a motion for that or what is the policy? Policy is that you uh come with the superintendent and any discussion for a motion has already been made. Yeah, I'm having discussion on the on the motion. Yeah, but I'm I'm I'm I'm relating to the policy and that's the way we're going to follow it until we change it. And this is not only for you, for all board members. I know sometimes we're discussing consents and and this is why we get advised by uh uh the guys

007that give the presentation that we can put a lot of things on consent on consent items so that we we Yes. So, uh, Trusty Martinez, um, the the board operating procedures which you all approved provide that um that if for consent items that those are going to be passed in one motion and if a trustee has an issue with um a particular item that's listed on the consent, then there the procedure that you will approve is to contact the superintendent and ask for information. If you're not satisfied uh with the information that's provided to you by the superintendent, then the next is to bring it up here. And so what I think uh Mr. Espinoa is saying is that it wasn't brought up to the superintendent. And so it's it's outside the procedure. It doesn't

008mean that you couldn't still contact her tomorrow. I know that you know, but um but that that's what your board operating procedures provide. Okay. All in favor of the motion. a second. I think we had Yeah, there's the first and a second. It was cruis and then we all uh one two three six five two uh abstension. You obsession or against? No, you have you you got a yes, right? Well, then you need to ask for a no, right? LA. Well, yeah, he rose. He He voted against Okay. All against Anybody against it? Staining. I'm saying. I'm going to stay. Peggy. I don't like to stay. I I'm just going to say no. Okay. We'll get the answer. Apply. One no and one abstension. Uh motion carries. Uh we're going to uh item eight action

009items discussion action to approve the resolution to nominate a candidate for the uh vacant position on the Sala central appraisal district of directors for the term ending December 2025. The recommendation is that the board of trustees discuss and approve a resolution to nominate a candidate for the vacant position on the Savala Central Appraisal District Board of Directors for the term ending December 2025. Uh if I may before I even uh make a motion, anybody makes a motion. Uh first of all, if if the resolution is for for us to nominate one of our own Mhm. Uh then I don't think we can do that. It would be a coral. Yeah. Yes, we we would have four. Mhm. If I was if I if I was elected, we would have four in that quorum and that

010would not be uh legal. What I was going to recommend is that we don't nominate anybody. Uh I think the county and the city have already nominated when we go to the board then we'll to the appraisal board we'll decide who because it's true. I mean we would that proper you don't you don't have a Yeah. was a me. So, no action. So, no action on on this one. The uh be discussion to approve the uh 2025 summer school program and calendar. You all have a uh a single page um separate cover that we provided for you. This is our proposed summer school program 2025. We will uh be running our required uh programs, bilingual program, gened, special ed programs, K through 12, K to 12. Our uh dates are June 5th through June 30th

011for a total of 18 days. We will only be operating two uh campuses and that's going to be Lorenza de Savannah and Sterling. Um, our objectives is to be in compliance with violin lead, to be in compliance with House Bill 1416, which requires us to provide accelerated learning for students that fail either a STAR test or an EOCC, offer credit recovery for atrisisk students, and offer EOCC tutorials for summer 2025 testers. Our work or staff development day will be June 4th, 2025. Students will begin June 5th up to June 30th. Students will report to school Monday through Friday from 8 to 1 unless otherwise noted. Staff will report from 7:30 to 1:30 uh for a total of 6 hours daily. Uh summer school uh coordinator, which we are required to have, will report from 7:30

012to 2 p.m. for a total of 6.5 hours daily. Uh I have listed for you the summer school positions. Uh we have a summer school coordinator, two summer school instructional coaches that are tied to grants, a total of 28 teachers between those uh three funding sources, a total of 10 pair professionals out of those three funding sources, one emerging bilingual teacher, two summer school clerks, two uh LVNs or RN, two police officers, two school counselors, two food managers, and six uh summer school uh summer food support staff. Uh you have the rates of pay that were approved when you all approved the compensation packet plan for the 2425 school year. Our summer school 2025 program contribution out of local and state. We will be um contributing $133,361, a reduction of 68% relative to last year's

013summer school budget, uh which was at $414,458. Federal will, uh make its contribution for a total of 131,99853 for a total summer school program contribution of $26,535953. a total reduced summer school budget of 65%. Last year, summer school programs were approved at 754,632. So, our summer school program has been significantly reduced. Again, our total contribution to summer school programs between local, state, and federal grants will be 265,359. Also, your recommendation is The recommendation is that the board approve the summer school programs 2025. Okay, I have a motion motion motion by Mr. Second. Second, Mr. O'Neal. Questions, concerns? I do have a question on the uh I noticed that there wasn't any principles. Who's going to take care of discipline? Those instructional coaches or the coaches are tied to the grants. Uh, so typically we have

014summer school leads, but summer school leads are paid out of local funds. And so in order to reduce summer costs, we're going to push those positions into federal grants. That's why you have a 400 there. That's a that's that's a grant that's going to be paying for it. Question. It's it's the uh the local that we're put in. It's not going to affect the presentation that we have by Mr. No, sir. Because we we would have already reduced summer school budget. Uh actually we reduced it by 20,000. We had only uh appropriated 150,000 and we're only using 130. Other questions? Uh so you only going to open the LDZ and FJH? Right. Correct. High schoolers are going to be going to the fly and is there do you see any issues having high schoolers mixed

015with junior high? We've run only the two the two uh again for the sake of reducing costs. Um we what we do is we designate wings or sections of a building to high school. Any other questions? Not all in favor. 70. Uh see discussion action to approve uh the uh TA application for staff development minutes waiver for the 2004 2005 school year. Mr. Charado will uh present just a brief recommendation on behalf of the of the district. So want to talk about both which would be uh C and D pretty much both start with C. C um we are proposing that we uh ask for a waiver uh for professional development days which would be uh Thursday September 26 November 7th Monday January go back with the dates right here Mr. They're on page 70.

016No, go ahead. Uh, and Friday, uh, February 21st, uh, 2025, uh, this will help us, um, gain, uh, 2100 minutes that the, uh, state allows us to use, uh, towards our student minutes. um you know how sometimes we struggle with saying we don't have no more minutes um uh and u you know in case an emergency happens where we release students. This gives us the opportunity to go back for the 2024 2025 school year and gain an an additional 2100 minutes which uh we uh greatly appreciate. And then the window already opened that's for steam. We're going to stay at seat. Yes, we're going to stay at seat. What are the minutes for? Additional uh minutes that help us uh in case there's a water leak um and we need to release students and we're

017out of minutes or days. Um these are 2100 minutes that we can go and uh be granted from the state. If we don't if we don't remediate those minutes, then we would have to add days to the instructional calendar. The minutes or how I mean how many minutes you have to teach per what is it? 7500 75600. Yeah. Per year instead of how many days now? Correct. You have minutes. Converted it into a minute. Do you foresee us running out of minutes this year? We already have run out of minutes at high school. Do I have a motion or did I already ask for motion? Motion? No, not not yet. We're going to take them together. It's the same thing or No. The recommendation is that the board of trustees approve a resolution. I'm sorry.

018Okay. uh approve the uh staff development minute waiverss for 2425 school year. So move second questions concerns not all in favor. We're voting on on Okay, we're voting for four. Thank you. 70. Motion passes. Uh the uh discussion action to approve TA application for STE development minutes waiver for the uh 6 uh school year. Mr. So the application is the exact same application. We're just going to be uh proactive uh in asking for the minutes already for next year. Uh that way there's a lot more leniency when we uh take extra dates uh next year for for unforeseen circumstances. You know, like I said, we have uh bats or you know, um water leaks or or something. Uh we can always tap into these 2100 minutes at this allows. So, we're just being proactive for

019for next year. Recommendation. The recommendation is that the board of trustees approve the TA application for staff development minute waiver for 2526 school year. A motion. So move second. Second spinosa. Questions concern. I do have a question again. Again here in the information it states that uh to train staff on various educational strategies designed to improve student performance. So uh correct. So uh in our calendar when you approve the calendar throughout the year there's four days which will for next year 2025 2026 we've asked for September 26th October 30th um January 5th and February 9th those days are professional development uh days that gives us 2100 but 2100 minutes towards students student minutes so they're professional development for earning student instructional minutes and the state is saying you're taking this little time away, but you're

020going to return to better your teachers to help better students. Thank you. So that's an additional 2100 minutes. So it's four extra dates development. Yes, sir. Well, not not additional. They've already been added to our calendar. It's already our calendar. We're just getting credit for them in ter in I mean if the board approves it in in uh in minutes part approved our calendar uh months ago uh those were already uh on there and if this is not approved then you'd have to extend the instructional per if we ran out of minutes if we ran out of minutes we would have to extend the instructional calendar so we always want to have some security so the way the calendar was approved right now uh I believe it's 75 uh I'm Sorry. 7,600 minutes that we

021have. So, we have a couple of minutes over, but this would take us almost 4 days extra where we wouldn't have to worry about Okay. You made up a motion right between Yeah. So, seconded by and uh all in favor motion passes. Okay. E uh got an action to approve budget. Uh we're we're not going to take action on E. Nine. We don't ask information or uh discussion items. We have uh our district enrollment starting on page 81. our enrollment, our active enrollment on page 82 is 15 uh 1568 and our uh attendance as of April 11th of 2025 on average is 91%. We're I mean we're holding at 91%. We do have some grade levels that are really um I mean all of the grade levels are pushing attendance. We have some that have

022kept their rates pretty high. You'll see third and third grade both coming in at 93, first grade coming in at 92. High school at uh pretty much averaging 90%. Um we have a dip in eighth grade at 80 at almost 90%. So um I mean we're holding our 91. It's not where we want to be. Um do you see us getting the money if we hold? Um, we'll see a um I think when we do our four marking period comparison from last year, we were still at 91 92%. So, we're holding at 91 92%. Are we going to see a reduction? Probably. Probably we'll see an adjustment. How significant an adjustment? We don't know until the state makes it uh its adjustment. Okay. No sir. informationational wise that that is I got a motion to

023adjourn motion by uh second by concern. I'm see

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