001the board of trusty city school district will meet regular section 6m Monday March 10th 20225 administration building Board Room 613 B West of Street crystas City Texas 78839 this time mon can call the role Mr Rosa Mr Samy Houston here Mr mat here Mr Victor is absent Mr Gable Espinosa absent Mr Vince Martinez here Mrs Peggy Young here okay we do have a Quorum item number three uh moment of reflection item number four audience of Pat Mr Flores number five special recation at this point we'll ask Mr Alvarado HR Director to introduce both Mr Hernandez and Mr s for the 2425 PCAT bus driver of the Year all right uh it says um we got a letter and we are proud to recognize Mr W Lucas s it says on behalf of the Pat and
002we would like to thank you and all your fine school bus drivers who are who whose care and dedication help ensure that children are safely transported to and from school during the year this year following a selection process by the district one exceptional driver was chosen to be the district's peacat bus driver of the year it is a privilege to provide your District's uh 2024 2025 Peak hat bus driver of the of the year with a special certificate Tumblr and Mr you want to come yes sir Don't Be [Applause] Afraid good evening school board members superintendent video this uh Bristal City ISD staff and community members I'm Albero Hernandez Chief Operating and facility officer today I'm here to recognize our bus driver of the Year this year bus driver is Mr Guadalupe Sate Mr sarate
003has been driving for three years for the school district he's friendly helpful with sta he's a true professional driver he's punctual reliable driver Mr Mr Sate drive with great care on all his trips he makes sure his students get home safely that is why I have the honor in presenting Mr wup Sate as our bus driver of the year for the 2425 school year [Applause] and your thank you thank you thank you Mr on the board we want to thank you uh because that's a great honor I mean especially uh for the safety of the students I know I mean hard I mean uh thank you for uh being careful with our students uh their safety and bring them home they go out and make thank you very much thank you all the drivers in
004the morning some money to get a basket there you [Applause] go hey we're going to we're going to move uh to work item nine uh uh to approve the memoranda of understanding between that was Jor College school district for our Charles if you want to join us up front was a request to move that one up I think there was a request yeah there was are we just doing 9A or we doing all of them 9 just 9A because he needs to V to uh Charles is here representing the Southwest Texas College this is initially a um an initiative by the crystal uh City Coalition uh proposition came to Charles first for uh the consideration for the board to extend the PCT program the patient care program to adult uh uh community in Crystal City
005at this point I'll let Charles address the uh theou uh hopefully the board will consider um approving it Charles good evening Mr board president esposa superintendent bionis members of the Board of Trustees thank you for your time what I believe you have in your packet is a cover letter with theou mou has four pages as said it came about because of Interest the Crystal City Coalition and School District to provide a PCT program in the evening for adult age students if you look on the first page it just simply describes the purpose of the memorandum of understanding provide a opportunity for that cohort of adult age students to go through and earn a PCT patient care technician level one certificate location would be at Crystal City High School in the evenings and the reason for
006that is quite simple the school district and Southwest Texas College currently have a patient care technician program for dual credit students and your classroom and your lab in which that takes place during the day that meets all the required standards and it's considered an instructional side off-campus instructional side of Southwest Texas college so we don't C currently have a place on our college campus which you're familiar with a couple blocks away but the site there at the high school is more than adequate to to do that so that's why it points out that the location of those classes the high school the parties of course for the college and the school district the term is for one year basically from March of 2025 through March of 2026 but as it's envisioned and as it was
007described initially by the Coalition and and the program coordinator is we anticipate that if you approve the mou and if the classes were to start in the second 8-week semester which begins in and the program assuming a student begins right then second 8we semester spring 25 they would finish the program by the end of the Fall 25 semester so it would end in December of 2025 but the mou is placed over a oneyear period just in case there need to be a little bit of flexibility and then Roman numeral 5 describes the responsibility of Southwest Texas college and the school district and both first the college degrees to provide qualified instructors and staff to offer that patient care technician classes in person at the high school in the classroom that's designated for in the lab
008and that we provide those faculty with the curricular material and the college when I said the college that's Crystal City Campus would provide advising Services Miss De La Cruz Holly De La Cruz is a director at that campus and she and her staff are that at providing advising Services it's for FAA for scope and sequence of classes so College provides that would provide that the group would need to be a minimum of eight students and this is where the Coalition yes sir the the Coalition has stated and this comes from my conversation with Dr Gonzalez that there's more than eight students that are interested in the program he's quoted 12 14 students so eight is the minimum that we would need so it looks like there would be more than enough students Comm again community
009members adult age students you'll notice on page two and this was confirmed with your superintendent the square footage of the classroom and the lab is approximately 1539 ft and so at the rate of 90 cents per square foot it comes out to 1385 per month that's what the college would pay south or pay Crystal City ISD for the use of that facility Monday through Friday from 5:00 to 9: is when the classes would take place and that would be for each month that the classes are occurring so again if it starts in March from then through the fall semester the only thing we we point out you know if there's a little bit of assistance from the school district with recruitment or assessment we don't expect uh for the school district to actually do any
010of that work other than just kind of refer the students back to us if they have questions because we know it's a very small community and certainly they could reach out to school district officials or or employees help us perhaps with the recruitment of qualified faculty if it comes to that point later on if there's a need for an additional person if you know of someone basically to kind of do the same type of interaction that the college already has with the school district to provide that type ofer older partnership Services we would call them and then specifically the college is in charge of onboarding those students admissions process making sure all their paperworks in place getting them through their financial aid applications or registered for classes and promoting it throughout your community and what's
011on item F or item six Froman numeral six just to be clear that the cost is the responsibility of the students it doesn't involve the district or anything like that that if I'm say one of these adult age students that registers for these classes I'm responsible for for paying it either through financial aid or through other means in Roman numeral 7 that's what I call the program of study so if you were one of those incoming students you would start second 8 weeks which is March 24th first class day and it shows the classes that you begin with and then you continue Into Summer One Summer two and then fall over the 16 we week semester so that gives you a pretty clear idea of just how much use how many classes would take place
012at your High School site in the evening also on page three for just again to be clear there are fees that run with those classes so they're build to the student again that's not a cost that the district is responsible for but as they take those classes there are some study material some certification fee exam fees that go with that so we just put it that way to make it completely clear for anyone looking at theou as to what a student would do what they would be taking what they would be doing in terms of exams as they go and then Roman numeral nine we emphasize that especially for the Allied Health programs since since patient care technician is one of those programs with a lot of scrutiny from State agencies it's it's important for
013students to understand that and that's why it says on ranal 9 what the students responsibilities are to qualify for admission to the program you that they have to be a high school or a GED holder high school graduate GED holder comply with those other items the current TB skin test series of vaccines other information but that's again that's on the student and then items from eneral 10 release of theu we certainly don't Envision that but you could you agree to it and the college and the district enter into this mou you can certainly request release from any part of it giving 60 days notice that's kind of standard in the way we build M us and then last part is a signature which be signed by your superintendent or whoever the board designates to do
014that you mentioned a minimum of L right yes what's the maximum the maximum on a group like that they normally keep the size fairly small so 20 I think is the the upper limit gu one question on the tuition and fees so if a student cannot fit the Dual credit into their actual schedule at school and they want to enroll in this class outside of the actual dual credit well they will have to pay as well like a student at that Chris City ISD student this adults is specific but if a student tests into I mean they take all the class I mean they take the test to get into college at 15 or 16 and they decide to enroll in college courses they would have to pay that fee even though they're a student
015at Crystal City ISD say that the Dual credit doesn't fit into their actual curriculum they can't get into this to the do credit class they want to take this one outside of uh the normal school hours okay to qualify you need a high school diploma or a g well you can you don't need a high school diploma or GED you can take their requirements yes for this one you have to for this one it's program itself for this one Mr Martin this this is since it's an 12 page right the requirement is that they either have graduated high school so it could be someone you know just done a year ago or much older than that or they hold a g uh any other questions what have it's 17-year-old that has a GED they qualify
016the age restriction I'm not sure that would that would come up for instance when the division chair and the PCT coordinator begin to intake students it's my understanding is they have to be 18 years old but that's something that they would be advised of as potential students oh I'm good yes they will have to we talked about security which we will have to discuss with Mr uh with Dr Gonzalez uh at a later meeting because yes we do we have to make sure that we Main the Safety and Security of the buildings no what about liability if something happens mean the school is going to be liable for if anything we already have we already have the existing okay agreement we have a recommendation yes the recommendation is that the Board of Trustees approve theou
017between Southwest Texas college and Crystal City ISD as presented okay do I have a motion to approve it I'll make it motion by second I'll second questions concerns in favor you're abstaining Iain because the place of work pass thank you thank you thank you very much thank you Charles we look forward to working with Youk you FES okay we're going back to number six close session the Board of Trustees will meet Co action is authorized by the Texas government code chapter 55 one