001still pray. Oh heavenly father, we come to you in prayer thanking you Lord for this wonderful day that thou has given us. Father at this time we ask that you will guide us Lord in this board meeting. Father, let us be able to make the right decision decisions for our students, Lord, and our staff and the whole district of Roreso ISD. Give us wisdom and let us carry out what you want us to carry out. And let it be your will. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. At this time, we go to item 83, which is public audience. Is he here? I think it's good afternoon. I would like to say thank you to everybody sport uh community of soccer as me as a soccer dad. I would like to appreciate full support and
002dream come true for my kid to be here still and wanting to play after all going through all the emotional crisis and just simply being appreciative of every everybody here. Everybody, we just want to say big old thank you. I'd like to say continue support without you guys be possible. That's would be my my my deepest deepest deepest biggest way to say thank you would be that way. Thank you to all. Thank you. is Juan Carlos Mias. Carlos Masaris are this Um central Mr. Mr. Coravus. Fore! Foreign! Foreign! You know, it's okay. and miss for the speech. [Applause] Mr. Miss Miss Gavan. Nochech. Very nice. Costa. Good evening everybody. I come here today urging the community and you Mr. Agapito, Miss Carmen, Miss Bones, Miss Yadira, Miss Paola, and Miss Janie to formally remove Mr.
003Ramos as president and member of this board. His recent actions with law enforcement are not a reflection of what Progresso ISD stands for. It is a disgrace that once again we are making headlines that we are the laughingtock of the valley. This is unacceptable behavior that should be reprimanded with appropriate consequences. You are a public figure who is representing the school and the community at all times. Therefore, there is no such thing as whatever he does during his personal time is not our concern. It is our concern. Mr. Lamos, don't concerned citizens contact you at all hours? What if someone would have contacted you that evening or the following morning? How can you ensure that you were going to be in a good mental health state to answer? I ask you, is this the individual
004you want at the forefront making decisions for our schools, for our children? Because I know I don't. As an educator myself, I must adhere to the educator's code of ethics and I strongly believe that anyone in representation of our school, students, faculty, and staff should abide by it, too. As an educator, we advocate for drug-free zones. How can we do that, Mr. Ramos, when you want to continue at the forefront as an educator, we try to instill a sense of responsibility in our students. How can we do that when you, Mr. Ramos, want to continue at the forefront? As an educator, we teach our students that bad choices come with consequences. How can we do that when you, Mr. Ramos, want to continue at the forefront? So, how can we ask students to take these
005messages seriously when you, Mr. Ramos, a person who is supposed to lead by example, was arrested for DUI, harassment, and possession of drugs. So, I highly encourage you, Mr. Ramos, to have the courage and lead by example to step down and take responsibility for your actions. Thank you. Alex. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Uh ladies and gentlemen of the board, uh I just wanted to thank you all for uh the graduation that you all orchestrated for the 2025 uh graduating class. Excellent job all around. Applause. Um I really don't want to keep on that same topic uh that uh this young lady expressed. My other concern was uh that uh hearing from UIL that I uh unfortunately had the opportunity to listen to that uh next time that we as a professionals uh have a
006little bit more data available for questioning at the level of those gentlemen that took their time to listen to our um discussion. Uh, another thing, uh, there was this parent that, uh, was talking about the kids for, uh, banned that they were in desperate need of, uh, tire and, uh, since I heard on the last meeting that I was present uh, that uh, principles were asking for for desk, right? Uh maybe you could see it in in an order of looking more into what the kids needs are and you know maybe put that uh desk for the principles on a stand still and and figure out what the concern of the parents are concerning their kids attire for um I really don't have too much to say but uh we all are grown adults and
007we should do our best to facilitate our needs for our kids. It's the most important thing as role models, as uh uh superintendants and whatnot, um please, as a concerned citizen, please uh let's put all this behind us and let's do the right thing. and go on as we always do come in here and and and talk about our kids needs instead of, you know, things that are not supposed to be uh spoken in uh schoolboard meetings. Thank you, Emily. Castile. Oh, Miss Castile. Good afternoon. My name is Evelyn Castillo. I am 16 years old and I am a former student of the school district. I come here today as a student and a voice of representation to speak about the truth and those children and people that have been silenced and ignored. When I
008was in elementary, I was a victim of bullying. But thanks to God, the situation was resolved. Additionally, after the pandemic, I was suffering with anxiety, isolation, and fear just like many many other students were. On my first day back to the Dorothy Thomson Middle School, I had hoped that things would be better, but unfortunately I went through a negative situation once again. My parents questioned, but they were ignored. We had to make the decision to move schools even though I didn't want to. My dream of graduating with a red gown as a red ant in my own community were shattered. But I had to leave because I was not given an option. As of today, I am in the top 10 at my current school and have received student of the year. I'm not saying
009this to show off, but to show that with great teachers, mentors, and leaders, you can have an opportunity to achieve great things. And that's why I'm here today to speak about leadership and about the situation that is going on. Have many of you forgotten what every student is taught each year about say no to drugs. We even have a week dedicated to the awareness of alcohol and drug drug consumption called the red ribbon week. So it does not make any sense that one of our most notable leaders has done the opposite. Although some people say that it was a personal matter, how can you see it as personal when that person represents all students and campuses during events and meetings? Where is the example? Where is the integrity? A real leader does not ignore the
010responsibilities and duties outside of office. A real leader keeps himself accountable in every situation. What is the message that you want to convey? Is it not to consume drugs inside of school or is it not to consume at all? Either way, this message is unnecessary if you keep justifying and silencing everything. I left the school district not because I wanted to, but because there was no protection. And to this day, not a lot of things have changed. And to Miss Paola Gandosa, I want to tell you something with all respect. Maybe you don't remember me, but I want to let you know that you were in a difficult chapter of my life, and I haven't forgotten it. That's why I want to remind you that you are sitting in this table to make the right
011choice. And to the board of directors, your duty is not to protect positions. It is to protect the students and their education. If you keep tolerating this kind of behavior, you are not helping this community. We recognize and appreciate the things that have been done, but with all due respect, I want to remind you that actions have consequences. This is not an attack. This is the truth. We, the youth community, see and understand, and it does a affect us. What you do represents you. And if you cannot comprehend that, then this position is not for you. May God bless all of you and may your decisions be guided by the truth. Thank you. Who's next? Miss Pñena, Alicia. Good evening board. Good evening, citizens of Progresso, Texas. First of all, I want to thank God
012for giving us another day of life. Each and every one of us, we all make mistakes, which is okay, and we learn from them. But I'm not here to talk about mistakes right now. I'm here to talk about soccer. Big applause to soccer. Okay. Back in November 1st, 2023 at 3:53, I received a very disturbing message from an individual. Hello, ma'am. FYI, we don't know each other, but I heard you care of our community from Progresso, especially the kids. A high school coach, Jerry, is doing some shady stuff and has to be stopped. The UIL finds out and punishes the whole soccer team. He has recruited some kids from Mexico to make the team stronger and that means he won't let seniors play due to the fact that he got coaches and players from other
013city city cities. He even put a house in I'm not going to say the the the street for them to live. If we want to do anything about that, maybe y'all can make a stop before it happens and hopefully they play fair. This happened in November 1st, 2023. Where are we? We are in 2025 and I am furious. Everybody knows I love soccer and uh I brought this to light to some board members and some personnel from the school district. And the reason I'm here is because Progresso has never needed help from nobody. We have kids here in Progresso that play soccer. Believe me, we have kids. We coach them. We don't need kids from Mexico. We don't nowhere. Just here. Let them play. and that parent soccer I don't know where you are. I
014feel you. Okay. So, we don't need kids from outside. We had coach Himenez. I don't know what happened. He was a great coach. We never had problems with uh UIL or anything like that of sort. So, soccer is very strong for me. So, we should do something about that coach. We don't need that coach. We have good people here that are able to coach soccer in our district. Before my time's up, also I want to know what the followup on the mariachi is because I always forget about the mariachi and the dance team and uh I don't know what else did I put there. the dancing, the mariachi, the soccer, and I want to thank Miss Armento, Mr. Agapito Perez, Mr. Jay Ramos, Miss Bernese, Miss uh A Costa for helping out that family that
015uh the plate sale and other donations that they did. Very much appreciate it. that shows the family that our school board does care. Of course, they care, right? Uh for our children and uh hope I'm not forgetting anything, but other than that, I'm here to focus on soccer. Whatever Mr. Ramos did, you guys can take care of that and I put it in your hands and God's hands. He's the one that judges. We all make mistakes. I make mistakes. I'm not perfect. None of you is perfect either. None of the schoolboard members are perfect. Just remember that. Nobody's perfect. We My always says, my my son says, always learn from your mistakes. So, that's what we're going to do. We're going to learn from our mistakes and go forward. And I leave it at that.
016In the name of Jesus Christ, our soccer players are doing great right now. Thank you. Anybody else? Mr. Mias. for coach orche. Mr. to Is that correct? for much. The for San Antonio. Facebookgo. Anybody else? All right, ladies and gentlemen, at this time, um, I want to thank everybody for coming this evening. I know social media has gone blasting for the past week. As per my attorney, I will not be speaking on my case, but I do want to from the bottom of my heart, I want to apologize to ID, to the city of Peso, to the students, to the staff. I also want to say so much sorry that my sisters here to my family that I left them down. It hasn't been an easy week for them, for us. I see social media
017the support some slandering my name. It's hurt but I'm going to learn from my lessons. I want to move forward dust dust it off. Work together with my colleagues to do better for PSD. The big question that I bet everybody has today is what's next? My term finish is in 10 months. The way people put me in this position, I will respect when the people vote me out. But I'm going to let the cons the concerned citizens do that. I'm going to do my best for the next 10 months. My term is over in May 2026. Anybody's welcome to sign up. But ladies and gentlemen, it's it's I don't want you guys for one mistake that I do is not going to define me. I am sorry. Sorry to my family. Sorry to the citizens.
018It takes a little toll on me and my family, but with God in God's hands, but once again, I'm sorry and thank you for coming this evening. Can I say a comment, Mr. Ramos? Go ahead, ma'am. Based on what you said and if you really cared for the district and what everybody has said and mentioned, not and that's very good that you serve the community and we applaud you for that. But the reputation of Loreso ISD, you have not given a good example and you have not been a good role model to our district. And if you had some decency today, like you had the, you know, to apologize, you would resign for the best interest of the district. And that's all I want to say. Thank you, ma'am. At this time, we're going to
019go with item A4 for the approval of the minutes. December 17, 2024. December 24, 2024. January 27, 2025. February 24th, 2025. March 25, 2025. April 8, 2025. May 5th, 2025, May 14, 2025, May 19, 2025, and May 7, 27, 2025. I'll make a motion to approve the board minutes. Motion by Mrs. Martinez, second by Miss Kanos. All in favor say I. Or say nay. I just have a a comment really quick. Go ahead. Why is it taking us so long to approve all of those minutes till December? You were a little behind, ma'am, but um today, as you can see, May 27 was the last board meeting. Uh so, we're going to be bringing every board meeting the next board meeting. I had the same concern, you know, because it's a lot of board meeting
020uh minutes to approve. Um who is the the secretary of the school board? working on the minutes. We have uh Miss Marisol Pñena and Mil Lupita Baldes. They were the ones helping us out. Uh I met with them already and that's why today we are uh up to date on the board minutes. Well, that's excellent. But let's hope that it does not continue being this way and we can improve on that. Yes, ma'am. And really quick, um I know Miss Tento did the um her comment. I wanted to, but we went straight into the me the the meet the minutes. Um I just wanted to ask the attorney if there's any way that he could explain to the community how um despite that Miss Flores, Miss Armentoto and myself had requested for him to be
021res uh to resign or to be done something with Mr. Ramos why we can't rearrangement of the board why we can't do that. Can he explain just to the community so that we don't have to do it like one by one when we get approached? So my concern is just there's nothing on the agenda that allows for a discussion of this matter. Right. All I can say is that the removal process is not one for the board. The board does not have the authority to remove a board member. Um you can look at board policy uh in the district. You can find the policy on how a board memo removal process works. Um the board itself does not have the authority to remove a board member. Thank you. That's sufficient. Perfect. This report Uh good
022afternoon, Mr. Board President, members of the board community. Today was the last day of summer school in our enrichment program. And I'm very happy to say that we have more than 130 students per campus. Uh at the elementary level, we had the enrichment uh program reflecting for chlorico, art, gaming, and athletics. Uh which is great. 40% of those students did not need summer school. So they registered just for the enrichment program. Also as you know we are working on uh finalizing the golf tournament. Up to now the district has about u 10 companies that registered. I believe Mr. Agapito had some more and uh Mr. Ramos had some more. The the uh goal is to have 35, but I think we're going to surpass it. So, I'm going to pass out the uh information and
023I want to take this opportunity to invite the community members if anybody is interested in helping out in our golf tournament. This fundraiser will be used uh as scholarship for our seniors. So, the ones that just graduated will benefit from uh this. Mr. Lassero, now that I see you here, I'll before you go, please make sure you sign off. We do have uh silver which is $400 for one team and every uh team will have a a threeman team. Then we have the gold 1,250 that's uh sponsoring three teams and then uh 255 500 uh we sponsoring three teams social media coverage full sponsor and we're going to put you on uh the billboard. I know you're going to sign up for the 2500 Mr. Open to men and women. It is open to men
024and women. Oh yeah, that's true. We put it right here. But yes, everyone is invited. We will have it on August 23rd, uh at the Santa Golf Course. Did you say what the funds were going to be for Yes. for our graduating class 2024 2025. I encourage all the community to support this uh this initiative and I encourage all the board members to to bring all your resources. I have something to say. Oh, okay. Mr. Coronado, can you specific how you're going to choose the recipient? I just want to be um I want to be clear how the students can actually I'm sorry I'm gonna I'm gonna raise your volume. We got the question. I got the question. Yes. So So once I'm miss Yeah, they heard your question. So they're gonna answer. That's a
025a very good question. Uh, Miss Flores, once we get the totals, I'm going to bring it to uh the board. Yes, M. Flores, that's a very good question. Once we get the totals, we're going to be very transparent to the community and to the board. I'm going to bring it up to you and then together we're we're going to uh make sure that we have all the protocols as to who and how they're going to get the funds. Yes, thank you very much. That was a very good question. Any questions on the gold tournament? Again, everyone is invited. Uh I see the mayor here. I'm going to take the application tomorrow to your office. Hopefully, we can get some teams from the city as well. We started our recruitment process uh this week. We are
026going to visit all the different neighborhoods that we have here in Progresso. That is uh part one of the parameter. Uh our administrative team will be there knocking on doors, talking to people and and we do want to recruit but we also want to connect with the community. We want to listen to them to see what is it that we can do to better uh the quality of our service and the quality of education. Uh the second parameter is we're going to be sending uh different teams to West Lico, to Santa Maria, to Donna, uh to Walmart, Peter Piper to see if uh we can recruit uh students from the outside. Uh and I'll keep you posted. I have a flyer right here that I want to share with you. And if you have any
027ideas, um give me a call. any feedback, anything that you feel can work to recruit students, uh, let us know. We have a lot of positive things happening in Progresso. In fact, uh, Mr. Lasso is here because he's going to give an update on the track and field. Uh, we will be having, uh, ribbon cutting for the community and we'll keep you posted on that. We have a, uh, 350 more less, mana. House Bill 1481. I know a lot of parents, uh, a lot of community members are asking about this. As you know, the state of Texas and the governor just passed a law which will ban, uh, students from using cell phones. So, I'm going to pass it on to our attorney so he can give us an update. Good evening, members of the
028board. So, there's a lot of new Senate bills and House bills that came out of the 89th legislative session. And so right now we're currently working on an update on all the relevant laws that are going to be affecting the school districts. Um there was a the governor's deadline to veto was Monday and so he didn't veto some bills and so we're now compiling the list of all the bills that are affecting school districts. The cell phone in classrooms is one of those and so part of what we're putting together is going to be an options to the districts on what they can do and how they can reach compliance on those new laws. Um, you might have seen the news also. There's Senate Bill 10 regarding the ten commandments in the classrooms. There's that
029one regarding the the cell phones. So, there's a lot of things actually that are coming out of there. And so, ourselves and TASBY uh and uh other organizations are kind of working and siphoning with some of those because there's not a lot of guidance on how to implement them. And so, in the next couple of weeks, um, as we prepare for the school year, I anticipate that we're going to be getting a policy update for the board to consider regarding the application of these policies. and we'll be getting the options to the superintendent as to what the legal compliance portion can be for that. Some school districts, for example, are considering u cell phone signal scramblers. Um but however, there are some safety institutes that are recommending against that uh because of scenarios like active
030shooters if we need to be able to call or we need to be able to make phone calls if there's like a a threat to the school district. Others are considering the pouches that zip lock and that are timed to be able to open them. So there's a different options that are going to be available to districts and we're kind of putting those together for for guidance uh to understand the compliance portion of it. I know that one of the main concerns from the parents perspective is okay what's what's going to happen if there's an emergency. Uh right now the students have the opportunity to text them you know this is happening at school. Uh but once we get to the resolution part, we'll work with with parents and we'll create a committee and we'll
031bring the resolution to you. Any questions on House Bill 1481. Now I would like to present uh Mr. George Lasso. He has an update on the track and field. Thank you Mr. Coronado. Good evening board members. What a pleasure to be here with you this evening. For the record, I'm George Lasso, engineer with Bulcram Consulting Services, Texas license 96396, and I'm the engineer that's been working with the district to bring together your project for your turf football field improvements along with the track. Uh, and I'm glad to report that today I had a chance to come out and visit with the superintendent working on the project. I was real real satisfied with what I saw with respect to the work done on the turf. It's looking real good. We've been working closely with Helis Construction
032to try to finalize the final details of the track improvements. All the compaction has been done that's necessary for the track and fields. All the concrete curbs have been put in place. What has hindered Kellas from completing the project is that we are aware that we've been had having several rain events. It's absolutely critical that we have a dry period before they put down the final material on that track. Otherwise, it it it may be exposed to failure. They can continue watching like we are the weather uh forecast to see what what a period where there's an adequate period. He needs between five and seven days to complete. uh in talking to the superintendent this morning for construction. If everything appears to follow like it's going right now, it may be Monday or Tuesday when
033they mobilize to start working on those actions. That'll allow them to put down the material and do the necessary markings to complete track and field. But they're anticipating weather permitting that everything will be completed by around mid July. So, we'll keep on monitoring that and we'll keep on getting reports to Mr. Now, as we moving along, while I'm here, I also want to give you a report on uh the status of funding for a major grant that was submitted under the authorization of the board back in November, which was the the EPA climate resilient grant, and it's a it's a grant that uh that under the direction of the board uh our firm prepared and submitted to EPA seeking up to 20 million for roof repairs, also parking lot repairs and providing solar panel to
034the different uh school buildings and a measures in in the hopes to try to cut down energy costs. Also replacing AC units at all our at all our district buildings and uh I'm glad here I want to report to you all that those applications are still moving forward at this time. the pre the under President Trump those were put on hold for a while but they are still continue being uh reviewed on a rolling basis and you all are prime still a prime candidate for uh granting this this amount of money simply because of your prox close close proximity to the Mexico border there the special funding that came along with this for entities like the school district where if you were within 150 miles from the border and you and the students you serviced
035were at or below the poverty level, you got extra points. So based on that, we prepared that application. So let's keep on keeping our fingers crossed that maybe we hear something positive. It'll be good for the school district if we can secure that funding unless anybody has any questions for me. That's my report for tonight. I have a a question on the on that EPA grant. I remember you when you guys mentioned it. Uh I I think you mentioned that only we were the only district in in the region that applied for it. Well, I understand that Brownsville also applied but not for the full 20, but there was 100 million set up for it. So you all are within that blanket. And I I know it's a it's a process, but I think you
036also mentioned about teaming up with a nonprofit organization or some something if I'm correct. We we went ahead and and teamed up with a with a local nonprofit again called Regional Mobility Authority and they're a housing type of development assistant uh group. That's the nonprofit working along along the Rio Grande Valley and that was one group that came in to help us put the application together. Now, they do not get any funds from this. It's is strictly assisting to to put the application together. And that was one of the requirements in order to bring an application like this to fruition. Thank you. I just have a question back on the track and field. Um I was just thinking cuz you said um depending on the weather so that it can be completed. It has to
037be completely dry. I know it's hurricane season. So with everything, what if something happens to it? Are we going to be like protected or you never know. We don't know uh if there is some disaster coming in or how does that going to work? That's that's a very good question and there is instruments that are in place for something like that as part of the contract. There there's an engineering there's an insurance component that comes along with it called a performance and payment bond. Should there be a disaster and that occurs then there there there's a means to correct it. But that's the reason that uh that the con we don't we don't want to get to that point. That's the reason that myself and the contractor are looking at this schedule so carefully because
038we need that fiveday period where it can stand a little bit of rain. It just can't stand a flooding type of event that's going that's going to hurt the the subgrade or the bottom material where that final subsurface is placed. But yes, there there's an instrument there that in case that happens can reverse because it's costing a lot of money. It is. It is. But uh want to make sure that just uh state law requires that anytime that there's an investment over 50,000 of public type monies, the the contractor needs to provide a performance impover. And that and all of that was uh taken care of in this project working closely with attorney and of course our superintendent to make sure those safeguards were put in place. Thank you. Was the prime contract with with
039your organization or with Helis? I I was the design engineer for it. I'm responsible for for the design and making sure they put it in. But the actual contractor is Pelis Construction. But I mean the contract Oh, the contract contract. The prime contract. The prime contract is with Pelis. Is it Is it a pay skill certified job? I don't a Davis Bacon project. Not Not this one. Not this one. Okay. No, they don't they don't have to guarant under the Davis Bacon Act, uh they're required to certify a certain amount of of payment for hourly employees. That that that did not apply to this contract. Do we have more or less a date of when they're going to have an answer for us for the grant? No, we don't. It's it's it's rolling and at
040one time under the president under President Trump's administration actually it was terminated but there but there's been a group a group of people that have challenged them in court and now it has come back and he's releasing monies at at different stages. So we're keeping our fingers crossed and we're keeping updated and go from there. Thank you. I wish I wish I I did have a date for you because we're we would be very very excited to come in and report to you that those funds are coming down to the Yeah, that sounds that sounds really good. Thank you for your time. Thank you. And we do have the fence and doors update. I have um Mr. Hernandez. Good afternoon, members of the board, Mr. President. Uh fans basically um the last thing they're completing
041or working on right now is gates. They already did the electrical, the motor. Uh basically they almost complete. Uh next month we're going to bring you the access point proposal. We're going to do the same thing that we're doing at the campus door going to work with the magnetic question on defense. I did have a question. I noticed over here on Malone in front of the baseball that that that uh hurricane fins was knocked down completely and and restructured higher. Over here on the elementary, it looks like they used the same bow and just put extension. Was that part of the contract or was it supposed to be Yeah, it was part of the knocked down completely and rebuilt. Stay within budget. Okay. Oh, just wanted to make sure. Is is the auditorium going to
042is part of that construction? That's going right. Yeah. To demolish. Okay. doors they're working on right now. Actually tomorrow as well. Uh we have a preliminary walk through tomorrow as well. All the concerns the doors change. They're all here. Uh so they're currently working on the one from the auditorium. I know you had told us if we wanted to de demolish it, but seeing how they had already started, wouldn't that be an option where they had already to add because like it's going to be costly to demolish? They they tried it, but it got to a point where there was nothing. So, I don't know if you saw the the the actual poles that were just bent by the wind. Uh, so that was not an option. They tried it, but it didn't work. It's
043not an option. Not an option. But I I'll talk to you about the different options and so we can move forward. What one more question was the demolish I know there's like pieces of fences at DTMS I saw last time that we did the walkthrough and they're like they they don't serve a purpose. Is that part of they it's a part of the audit. I mean part of the audit part of the auction somewhere was sold at the auction. They were sold in the auction. We made money. Okay. So they are going to be removed. Okay. Once we finalize the fence and doors I'll let you know. We're going to do a walk through uh before signing off on it. Any questions? That's all I have. Thank you. That's we to the presentation by uh
044Energy Services. Thank you. But these are the extras if you want to leave it here. That way Maris can give them. Thank you. There you go. You're welcome. Hello. Thank you guys for having us today. Uh superintendent board members, my name is Juan Galvan. I'm the chief operating officer Energy Sources. We're a energy consulting firm. Much different from your current uh broker right now. You guys are with TASBY. Uh we do we're a turnkey operation. We work with lots of stuff. Um before I get started, just to piggyback on what uh the previous presentation was on uh on the $20 million grant, we actually can fund all that at zero interest for you guys with a small administrative fee. We working right now with uh withdoing their lights. Uh we're working uh with San Bono
045ISD. We're doing a scoreboard. Doing dancing lights as well. We do all kinds of projects. infrastructure related this is all tied into your energy we're able to help you reduce that so I just want to mention that so um we've been around since oh since probably deregulation 20 2003 uh through some form of another uh we concentrate really trying to reinvent the wheel because like most consultants come out here they'll sign you up and then you'll see them again when it's time to sign you up again you guys currently are in a 10-year contract with TASBY you guys haven't seen their energy consultants come out here to to see you guys We're pillars of the community as uh we mentioned right now. We'll definitely be your golf tournament. We'll be all the events. We'll make
046sure one of one of the partners of your guys's event going forward. What really separates us though from everybody else is the actual what we actually do. We actually look at all aspects of energy. Uh there's two parts to every bill right there. You see what you're actually using and then you see your utility charging charges, right? And so we work with you guys hand in hand with demand response whether like they're not LED but we work led different things that we're able to help you guys with. Uh we look for grants. We also have a team that comes out here, looks for any street lights you guys have out uh in the parking lot that belong to you guys. Uh whether it's a if through a we work with them, go ahead and replace
047if it's out, it's free of charge. If you guys wanted to replace highpressure sodium, which is the the yellowish lights that you see to an LED lights, $137. That's what we work with hand in hand. Um if you want to look at some of the different things that we've done, uh we've assisted City of Edinburgh. They were in a bind uh coming out of contract. We're able to help them in a reverse bidding process, get that taken care of quickly. We found some anomalies with uh IDEA public schools. They were in the wrong classification code. So, we're able to get them back $11,400 per month. So, that was able to help them out as well. And Roma, they were paying taxes and error. So, we recovered $128,000 for them. Uh La Hoya was out of
048contract as well right before wintertorm Yuri hit. So, had we not helped them with that, they would have had a couple million dollar bill. We also assist them boys and girls club Macallen and back taxes as well. um on on you guys since you guys are rural uh you guys may be paying a PC assessment tax and once we dissect the bill maybe we get that money back for you and that's uh I think about two and a half% of what you guys are paying electricity I I haven't seen your bill currently so I don't know exactly what um then we have a the next page just references well we have a majority of the cities uh here in B county hidal county we have a lot of different school districts I know we work
049familiar with Mr. Ramita's some different districts as well. Uh we just uh picked up San Bonito which is not on this list. Uh going on the next page uh integrated efficiency. This is uh similar what I was speaking to you guys about. Uh right now uh we have different programs for you guys. Uh we have uh be able to to do HVAC uh any anything really infrastructure related. As I said in Hilal we're doing uh we're doing actually electric tennis courts. We're able to find some grants for them through United States Tennis Association and through Dick Sporting Goods. it was able to cover the new LED lighting for them. Um, and in San Bonito, we're able to find a grant for the lights as well. We we're handinand with all these things. Uh, one of
050the great programs we have at the back here is that we are able to have some funds that were allotted to us through the inflation reduction act, the green deal. Uh, and we have enough to be able to do 200 units here. It's called the what's called the cool saver. So, we'll send in a team to do AC tuneup for up to 200 units, 25 tons. And this free of charge for the district become our client. Uh and what what happen they'll come in, they'll do up to 25 tons, 200 units, and the remaining they'll do next year. This will come in about an $80,000 service. And this free of charge for us. Uh like I said, they clean the handler the inside, they clean the outside unit, and they replace the filter. And then
051even to go a step further, any employees of the district who want this at their house, they just sign up through the same portal and they get the their house as well. That's all free of charge. And then that we have this is a great thing. I know it's been a somber uh meeting today. So let's try and get some uh some here's some great thing for the community. Uh this is called the infinity program. What this program does, it gives you guys uh the school board, the the faculty members uh and and uh the constituents of the ISD. It gives them a lower rate at their home. So they're able to go ahead and sign up for their lower rate of their home. This completely separate entity. So as soon as I know you
052guys I think your current contract with TAS expires in 2028 but if you guys sign up with us once you guys sign up with us this becomes effective immediately for all the constituents faculty staff everybody here. Uh currently the rate I believe is 7.6 cents right now at your home. And like I said there is a soft credit check for for most people. I mean so it's it's not that bad but that's would be the the rate for for at your home. So I'm not sure exactly what you're paying. Most people just pay the bill. They don't look at it but I guarantee you it's in the double digits. And this would definitely help. Like I said, be a good uh a good win for the for the board, too. Uh the next page just
053gives you a QR code. It's just generic code. It doesn't come out to anything, but uh if if the district would like I mean the board would like, I can go ahead and give you guys an actual link. And the actual link uh for La Hoya, Sanonito, we have a couple other schools that are already participating in this. And that would show you what the actual rates. And then finally, uh, as I said, uh, the last page is the cool saver program. Like I said, that that also would qualify would have the the employees of the district qualify for that as their personal residence. The only caveat I the AC has to be at least one year old. I know I went through it really fast. I know, but you guys comment took a lot.
054I don't want you guys to be here all night. So, uh, questions, concerns for us. Any questions, concerns? Cost zero. Actually, zero. So, like I said, when we said we reinvented the wheel, we went back and said, "What does what do school districts and cities need?" That's the majority of our clients. What do they need? And the one thing we were like, "Okay, well, we need to be able to help the constituents." That's number one. That's where the affinity programs created. We need a help, you know, help demand response, lower their A charges. That's where we were able to get a lot of the funds with the Cool Saver program. And then ultimately, we partnered up with Next Era and they were able to do the financing part for you. That's finances at zero interest.
055There is a small administrative fee of 0.5% roughly. It's a sliding scale, but like in Hilo's case and they're they're getting their lights done at zero interest. They're doing lights. You they'll have dancing lights just like you're at the UT stadium, you know, the same thing as well. And that's at zero interest. So, are you guys like general contractors and hire Well, the the GC is in fact next year. That is correct. He's his name is Tim Keracostas. He he's the electrical engineer and he is the G. But we go ahead and hire local people because we're based out of Florida with the next areas. That is a cost. No, there's no cost. That's to join this program. No cost. Now, if you decide to if you decide to purchase a HVAC, yes, obviously there
056is a cost. Yes, sir. But uh but like there is no cost. Like I said, there is no interest fee. There is a small administrative fee. So basically, you would need you would need a light bill from from how how like just one month. One month. Just one month is all we need. And we can do an analysis. We can come back and uh you know, I mean, some of the buildings here are old. So I'm pretty sure that the AB charges are a little bit higher than they should be. We can work with AP and see if we can get a reduction for you guys immediately. So, can you provide an analysis for us and then present it to us? That way we can I just need a copy of the bills. Yeah. Yeah,
057let's do that. Mr. Rendes, good point. Okay. All right. Any other questions, concerns? No, sir. All right. Thank you for your time. Yes, sir. Thank you. At this time, we're going to be three TASBY pay system review. Uh, Mr. President, members of the board, um this would be to analyze our pay scale just to see how we compare with other districts. The cost would be 8,850 plus about $2,000 of travel reimbursement for consultant. They will give us the summary. will present to you um how competitive we are uh across the state, across the region, and then to see if if uh we're competitive like with West Lodon and and they're going to give us also some strategies to try to improve and to try to get there. I think there were some questions. I think
058Miss asked me a question regarding why were some districts publishing already their their their rates and stuff. So, I just wanted you to know you're on different budget cycles, that's why. So, there's some districts who have budget cycles that are already due this month. So, they are already approving budgets and they're already approving uh things because they are they are ahead of you, but you're in a you're in a different budget cycle that doesn't run that runs through July. And so, that's why you're not at that stage yet, but you will be at the stage where you're going to be getting your pay uh compensation plan coming to you in the next couple of weeks. You're going to get your budget. You're going to get your proposed tax rate. But those other districts are just
059they're on a June cycle, you're on a July cycle. So, just for some context, because I know that there's a lot uh publishing in other districts about this topic, that's why you haven't seen it here yet. So, just in case teachers are watching from home or we have teachers here in the audience, we're working on it for the next month. Now, if you do want to get on a gym cycle, right, we can have that conversation and what you can do with that, you can actually save money on the budget coming up for a full month and add that to your general fund. So, if you all want to consider that for the next school year, we need to be having that conversation in December. And what that would do, it would switch our fiscal
060year to end June 30th, open up our budgets for staff as early as as uh July 1st, and that would save you a whole uh month of budgeting that you can add to your general fund. So, if you're interested in that, we're we're happy to bring that up to you on the November, December timeline. That sounds really good. We this is actually a very a very good idea. Uh I know that TASBY has been along has been around for a long time. Have we has progress done this before? We we did it when uh TEA got here about say 10 years ago and and the base of our pay scale was because of TASBY. We've been ch changing it. We've been trying to help our our teachers. Uh so once we pass the new compensation
061plan, they're going to get that and they're going to analyze it and compare If we do this once or every two years, you know, that that'd be good for for our teachers. Uh I know the So, it says HR services. Is there is this part of that HR services just a pay review or do they provide HR consulting? Maybe. So, they they provide a lot of different I know there's like HR firms out there that that with everything that's going on, maybe it'd be good to either get uh consultant in here or proposals through TASBY and maybe lo other local, you know, we're on probation, so make sure to that that will help us do our uh due diligence, right? Any other questions? It's going to be the turnaround time. That that is a very
062very good question. Do they tell you how long? Miss uh Valdez is telling me that it's several months. Miss Flores, it goes in before the the next year site the next consider getting consulted so we can move forward. I know teachers and administrators that are anxious. Any other questions? I need a motion. Ladies and gentlemen, I make a motion to approve the Tazby pay system review. Second. Motion by Mr. Pettis, second by Mr. Cost. In favor say I. All say nay. Motion passes. Okay. Now we got to see one agreement. South Texas College Early College High School. Mr. President, members of the board, this is a renewal uh for this year. It stayed the same as last year. uh administration is recommending to approve it. No changes. No changes. I make a motion to approve
063the C1 interlocal agreement with South Texas College. Second. Motion by Miss Martinez, second by Miss Costa. If say I can say nay. I motion passes. Um memorandum between Rand Valley Independent School Districts, Charter Schools, and Randy Valley Institution Higher Education. um for the mathematics and English language arts courses region one distance learning. Yes, Mr. Board member uh Mr. President, members of the board, uh we need to pass this in order to send some teachers to get training and uh once they get the certification with that training, they're going to be able to teach college prep, mathematics, and English language arts, which will help us in our CCMR indicator. College instruction will take place here at the high school. Yes. Yes. The teachers will take the training, then they're going to come back. We're going to
064add those classes to the master schedule and it it'll count to CCMR. Awesome. I see funding says NA. Why? Why NA? Because we're not we don't have to pay for it or Oh, for for the actualou? Oh, we're just going to create theou. So, we're approving the MOU between us and and and the ones that will provide the train. Should an MOU have a cost? So, okay. Motion for We need a motion for that. Okay. Make a motion to approve C2. Motion by Miss Martinez. Second. Second by Mr. Cost. Say I all we can say nay. Motion passes C3 region one distance learning. Good afternoon members of the board. Mr. Board President, we're requesting the renewal of region one uh distance learning consortium. What it is, it allows us to provide uh online trainings for
065the teachers especially the first two weeks of professional development and it has all the mandatory trainings from uh sexual harassment. Um all of the mandatory trainings are there and they do it online as a course. $4,000 is nothing. Uh so that that's good. Uh do you know if our teachers are really taking advantage of? Yes, they have to have a certification and specifically the ones that are mandatory they have to submit into HR because every year there are a number of of uh required uh training that they have to complete. So it gives you an assessment at the end of the course and then they provides you with a certificate that they have to submit. That's good if they're using it. Any other questions for M Cornell? All right. I make a motion to approve
066region one distance learning consortium. Motion by Miss Martinez. Second. Second. Mes say I. I. All say nay. Motion passes. Do you have C42? Go ahead. Um the next one is a renewal for megabyte cooperative agreement. It's also with region one. We utilize this one for students. The last um it's professional developments for students. So the last training that they attended was the STEMfest. We um invited all the elementary students from uh PEC and from elementary to attend and they had like STEM, robotics, they do a lot of conferences for students and they're also going to do sports. So they're going to allow students to engage in um gaming competitions and it's part of the cooperative agreement. It allows us to have four that are complete. Do they provide any technology or no? They like uh
067laptops or stuff like that or No, they provide more than anything professional development like for the students and for the teachers that have to do with technology. Right. Good. Good. Question. Any other questions for ML? All right. I make a motion to approve me cooperative agreement. Motion by Martinez. Second by Most I. Say motion. Motion passes. You have the DMAC too. So for DMAC, we're renew asking for the renewal of DMAC. This is our um data management system that we utilize pretty much for everything for teacher teacher evaluations, star data, uh principles evaluation, ELPback. Um we're asking for your approval to renew it. Any questions? Make a motion to approve C5DA solutions agreement. Motion by Miss Martinez. Second by Miss Motion passes. Go ahead. 2025 2026. Uh Tot, as you remember, we uh chose blue
068bonnet for the high school through lasso 3 about two months ago. Uh I was able to meet with Miss Vanhee at region one trying to help us out because as you remember we paid $100,000 through through the grant and uh we want to do an amendment because they're going to help us out with DTMS and elementary as well. So uh we are going to expand it to DTMS and elementary for blue bonnet math at that same uh same the same price. Okay, that's what I was going to ask. Any other questions? Make a motion to approve the 2025 2026 TA aotment. Motion by Martina second. My name is Kos say I. I say n. Motion passes. At this time we go to surplus property auction update. Um we had our auction in June 7, 2025.
069the net uh the auction resulting a total net profit of $27,43 with How much? I'm sorry. 27,000. How much did we do the last time? We did a little Did everything Did everything uh get sold? Everything Everything got sold. We gave him a week. But I know that. Yeah, cuz I saw those fences rows were through like FFA. Is that Oh, they took them away. Oh, yeah. No, the only one that we auction were the one. Oh, okay. Not the ones back there. After the auction, we'll take them away. We'll do it again. Okay. All right. Any other questions on the auction? At this time, thank you. At this time, Huh? No, that's just an update. At this time we go to student athletic insurance renewal. We have the student athletic insurance renewal. This covers
070athletics 12 and uh K through 12 all school activities. That's 44,000. When was the last bid for this? Last year we have to renew it every year. Bids. Do we get bids every year? We have a comparison. Yeah. No. No. No. We we Where's Ivan? Ivan on the athletic insurance. Do we go out for bids or how do we do the renewal? It's it's it comes from the recommendation from the AD. Correct. I know that uh Excuse me. That would be Ivan's Ivan. But on the claims, but on the claims, they they they do a good job with with the student. No students had no issues. I'm just saying about the coverage. Okay. The rate going to stay the same. The rate stays the same. All right. Can I ask who the agent is? Who
071Who's the agent? Yes. It comes from student athletic insurance. New York Life Insurance. Life insurance. When When does it expire? Runs through August 31st. That was do we still have time? I think do we have another what was that? Miss asking if we still have time to get another quote but the thing is that you got to understand I mean if we we of course we have football right next month. I don't know if we have time because remember we start two days right now the policy. Oh but this will be effect up to 31st of August. If it finishes August 31st, the next two months. Okay. The first official date is August 1st. Right. I think we should go for ask for quotes and and I and I tell you uh as a businessman
072the agenda. So yeah, that's that's going right now. You only have a renewal. You don't do the renewal. You have to bring it back to a board meeting to approve going out for the RFQS or the RFPs, whatever you're going to request to receive the importation for your service or whatever. So you rather just table it. It's up to you all, but you wouldn't be able to authorize bids today. You would need to call a special meeting or wait to your next meeting to be able to call. Would there be a problem if we table it, Mr. Ivan? Mr. No, cuz we we'll be covered till August. Yeah, the coverages. Let's table it because insuranceances have gone. They're crazy right now. So, you have about 60 days in between. If you all need to do
073that, if you all want to do that, then you all need to have a meeting before we go out on break to authorize going out for bids. Otherwise, you're not going to make it on time before it comes in and you're going to risk elaps coverage issue. I'm okay with a special meeting. Yeah, let's do that, coach. All right. All right. At this time, we need a motion to table the item. I make a motion to table the student athletic insurance renewal. Second. Motion by Miss Martinez, second by Mr. Cost. I I motion passes. At this time, we go to D3. Possible action approval resolution requesting installation of the video audio equipment for the special education classrooms. there was a board member request to add an item regarding uh the cameras in special ed contained
074units. Um the law requires that it be requested by a parent or the the board itself requested in their units. So what's on here right now would what this would allow it would allow administration to uh put cameras special units sorry. Oh, in order to u to be used for whatever purpose would be needed. Parents could request it for see what's going on with children. The administration can use for evaluation purposes, review of classroom management, whatever it is. Um, this would allow for you to be able to do that. Now, this is not purchase cameras and this is not set funds aside. All that would still have to come back to the board. You have to budget for it and you have to actually uh go out for a bid for the camera systems. But
075this just allows administration to begin working on those processes for you. It's pretty common among school districts to have them nowadays, right? And it's for all the campuses, right? Yes. But it's only for special. Yeah, I know. But for all the campuses, I make a motion to approve the cons consideration of possible approval of resolution requesting the installation of video and audio monitoring. I'll second that motion. Motion by Matina, second by Miss. All in favor say I. I. Motion passes. At this time we go to D4 versus the coach's handbook 2025 2026. Mr. Coach Now, members of the board community, we are uh bringing over the past year and a half that I've been uh serving as the athletic director, one of the things that we wanted to do was create, we didn't have a
076handbook that was created uh that would basically guide athletics for uh all aspects of athletics. Um, so one of the things that we did was we started in-house a handbook that covered almost every topic that a coach, a new coach would be able to have questions about to ensure that there was uh solid answers for these coaches. In talking to Mr. Bau, felt it necessary to be able to bring it up to the board to make sure it was board approved. Um, we had been basically using it in house um through our athletic department. It was just an athletic form or an athletic document that was guiding our coaches. But in doing so, we just felt it was necessary to bring it to the board to make sure that we could make some changes. just
077felt that if we had a uh uh manual that actually covered everything from transportation issues to coaching requirements uh how to handle any situation with parents particular students were able to uh better assist our coaches in in handling the situation. So handbook was that has been on several web chats with UIL trying to figure out some of the areas that we can fix to be able to update our athletic handbook. We just found that those areas were necessary to be able to be addressed. So, we did add an addendum which is what you saw or what you see in uh the packet that I've just given you that included uh some of those areas from hiring practices to coaches evaluation communications. We did include a copy of the coaches evaluations that coach last. Uh we
078have those on file with the athletic office and those for record keeping coaches does have an organizational chart that includes the athletics organizational chart for this upcoming year that is now coaching staff that's returning and then any so approved and book will basically serve for this upcoming year and going forth. If anything else that would like to be addressed, we can sit on the court now and make sure we can adjust it. Uh but right now it does touch upon everything from accountability to hiring development all stakeholders basically athletics and making sure that everybody's aware of what how athletics is going to be run at progressive. I like the evaluation part teachers get evaluated so I think coaches should too. Then we offer evaluation to coaches and then uh coaches do a self evaluation also
079of the program of their their own program and then also of the program in general of the athletic program. The organizational chart is also important. Every single coach is going to be receiving one of these, right? This the coaches that will be receiving one is on the it's in there. Uh if you guys can see as of uh and everybody will be anybody who decides to coach the coming year going forth at ProgressoD will have to receive and it does have two areas that they do have to sign which are head coaches duties, assistant coaches duties and then just the acknowledgement form that gets filed with our HR director. Hey man, what if you happen to add more more sports? Um we can ma'am the only thing um that we just add an addendum to
080it and we can adjust it to make sure that we can know that there was some pressure for now also for powerlifting and other sports that we want to try and bring in um so we can make sure now and adjust it submit everything in terms of the numbers the numbers that are on there are just estimates uh for what we do have already in house all the sports that we do have so you guys can type it and everything uh and these also reflect the raises that you all approved this year with head coaches stipens with assistant coaching stipens at the high school and all coaching stipens at the middle school as well. Everybody received raises last year. Uh we received three year have our head coaches at 5500. Our assistants at the high
081school at 3,000 and our middle school coaches at 2250 and the only reason for the discrepancy between middle school and high school is because of the number of co games. At middle school we have a 10 game season. High school we have about an 18 game season not including postseason. So every coach will get a training and a men. Yes. So we can stay compliant with UIL. Yes. We're actually in talks with the UIL to see if they could get somebody here for us that would allow for additional professional development. This year we do have 10 coaches are going to professional development or coaching school at T association. Uh it's like third week of July. We have all our seven coaches for the football staff and two of our two volleyball coaches. All the rest
082of the sports basketball, soccer, golf, cross country and track go throughout the year to individual sport conferences. Those do not include they are included in this one but they prefer to go the basketball has a basketball association bench that they'd like to go to and soccer have all different ones but we are looking for representative to come in kind of just give an overall training terms of basically monitoring uh accountability for video and how about the athletic trainers are also getting updates on everything. Yes. Yes. Yes. They they the athletic trainer they have they had a convention uh last week at the South Padre Island uh seminar that they have and then we are wanting to see them right convention that they would be able to offer that service for our students here in house
083as well to just kind of keep up to date with all the new therapy that are afforded to be a even are you going to find someone to be like in charge of like making like the paperwork besides Ivan because I know Ivan can get real busy with everything. Um, who's going to be like helping assist him so we can make sure that the UIL they're following everything. I've been meeting with with Ivan throughout the past three weeks. Uh, once we get to the compensation plan adjustment, I'll bring it to you and um, you need to make sure that you vote to add that to uh, this structure. Then after that we'll follow the process that uh Mr. Gonzalez was just describing right now. I just know because I know that all are under the
084callation. So I want to make sure that we're all following. Yes, ma'am. Definitely. Yes. And this will help for that this handbook here. Yes, that's definitely going to help for the principal. Make sure the football coaches get them. Okay, Miss Lis, that's a great idea. Principal need to be involved. I've been talking to Mr. Noli from from UIL on a weekly basis. uh he was very happy that we were taking it to the board. As soon as you approve it, I'm going to send it to him. He's going to let us know if we need to adjust anything. So, we we'll be going back and forth. Uh this is a working document. Uh if we need to make any changes, I'll bring it back to you. All right. Any other questions on the uh on
085the stipen amounts? Is that what we did last year? That's what the school district did or how we gave we gave a raise last year. Of course. And that was another thing that I was going to mention like we're doing the pay uh through TASBY. Do you know if there's an organization or maybe even through TASBY that they can find out uh what the average is? Actually, it was part of the TASBY review. Yes, they're going to review the stipens as well. Oh, okay. Good. Good question. Any other comments, questions? I just want to say uh I want to congratulate all the everything that's happening in our district and the on the students as as well like all the dedication that had they they're putting in and the coaches and everybody. Um but I just
086want to question like what is the morale of the students, you know? Um, I see that there's a very low number in football uh players versus soccer players. Um, I don't know if it's because of the coaching or is it because of what what what I don't know if you can tell me. I know it's a little bit off topic, but it what is what do you think is the culture of being a border town all the way and that's something that obviously very last so many years um hopeful I think just to support that one one thing that and wonder why we wanted fire early on when I got here years ago. I started program that was important because they joined the sport even middle school these kids from We're in a very tough
087district or football and one of the things that we're trying to obviously we're investing more money to make sure these programs kind of get find a way seven on seven on seven operate different program we are offering for basketball, for baseball, for softball. We're trying to be different. Now, in terms of football, in terms of the morale in general, I think one of the biggest things I I mean, I've applied the kids every year just because regardless of the the success of of the football team itself, it will show everybody have the same group of kids that stay committed to. Now, um we're, you know, working on still trying to add more equipment, whatever they need, right? coaches, get them a little more money and try and find out buying this other equipment that makes
088the difference. Um, right now we do have currently this we've had over 65 students at spring conditioning the last three weeks. That's been on average every single day. Um, which is the highest number we've ever had the last um have at least 20 to 25 athletes in football that have been consistent that have been consistent every single day. I know our football coaches are are offering uh like the end of the week they do like a little reward. I think today they offered mole to the kids and trying to find ways of enticing them to kind of stay, you know, committed to it. We're doing the same thing with strength and conditioning uh with the volleyball skill and everybody trying to find ways to make sure they want to stay home. It's summer. They want
089to be, you know, at home, but we have a huge number that's super excited for his upcoming year. And we are investing trying to invest a little bit more money in athletics to make sure. I know the new stadium, the the field, the the renovations. We're talking about renovations at the the middle school gym, the high school gym as well is going to make a big difference. That was the biggest thing I was talking to now about trying to instill pride again, really trying to make sure proud of wearing the Barusso name on the chest, praying for us because it is something that uh is going to be the heart. As much as we want to say kids are here for the education, I think athletics is a big part of why we bring them
090to why they come to because they want to want to play, they want to practice. So we can kind of combine the two and really mesh together the academic part and the athletic part. I think really good fears of success in terms of both academic and athletic. Another another thing you mentioned they've been playing since like 5 years old. Uh maybe maybe we should reach out to the city and see how the city can can bring up ways of uh helping with teams having uh I know it's I know we're a small community but uh boys and girls club maybe you know something like that. Actually, uh I met with the mayor about a month ago because the plan is to clean up the old administration building. We had the elementary right here in the
091corner uh and try to uh get to the point where we have a youth youth center or boys and girls club and also a library. So, we're working with the city. Maybe we can use those $20 million if we got a grass build something. Hope the president doesn't take it away. Park, right? That's that's what I mean. Parks and wreck. Not necessarily like a boys and girls club, but like a parking wreck. Yeah. Fortunately, we do have some great stuff that we have is just have some really good hours here. Even if we're not able to pay them right now, we have conditions where coaches are able to work, but then they have their skill. I me personally with the kids to work on specifically every volleyball, basketball, baseball, track, whatever it may be. Everybody's
092awarded an hour day uh to to be able to work with their kids individually, especially the ball sports that can't your work career around golf, cross country, and track we're so pract. Yeah. Yes. Thank you. Any other questions for Mr. Gonzalez for the handbook? Thank you for this. Thank you. Thank you. We need a motion for I make a motion to approve the protoc coaches handbook. Second motion by Miss Martinez, second by Miss I. I motion passes a workers uh renew have the renew for the workers composition or current taxes. Last year's rate was 222,000. This year's rate is 185,000. We had a reduction on from 17 cents. Requesting the approval of the compos the renewal of the TASM workers compensation cover 25. Any questions? Anyone? Tas is hard to beat. very always going to
093be hard even on PNC's and all that kind of I make a motion to approve workers compensation renewal motion by Mr. Martinez second by Mandosa. All in favor say I. I say name. Motion passes at C person. C person for the month of question. Do you have a question? No. Sorry. Go ahead. For the month of May. Any questions, ladies and gentlemen? Did you review your book? Anything that you caught on checks? What does uh Mc McGraill do? McGraill adoption with the NOICTI says animal technology. Is that for like FFA or for I did see a couple of checks for uh multiple checks for for Helis construction. Why why are we making multiple checks? I mean like four four different checks prior prior. Oh, they barely cashed him there. He's for the month of P.
094No, but his question better question is why why can't we just give them a single check of what we approve separate preference from us? Yes, cuz remember that we have two different contracts with them. One was a track, the other one was a field. It was separate and apart, but we're up to part with them, right? Yes. What happened with uh line berger gogggin? I show an expense and then a credit 7 of 16. That's our tax collection, right? Yeah. Delinquent tax fees. H 167. Line item one, two, three, four, four, and five. Oh yes. Um on that one we had already um process those payments. We was on oversight. There's a check for Ohan. That's all I have. Thank you. Any other questions? Any motion? Make a motion to approve the cash dispersement. In
095second by Mr. Perez. All in favor say I. I. Motion passes. Investment report. Yes sir. Total investment. Total invested today is 10 million 10,590,000. Current earnings is 38,000. Balance 10,629. Those require Any questions on investment report? I make a motion to approve the investment report. Motion by Miss Martinez. Second, Mr. Aqu. All in favor say I. I. All against motion passes. Uh tax collection. Total collected today is 3.2 million. Total outstanding is 827,000. current tax collection collected is 80 break to 83 from last. That's what I ask last year. We're we're a little bit doing a lot better this a little bit higher. Yeah. Correct. Make a motion to approve the taxition. Second motion by Martin. Second. Mr. P. Say I. I. Motion pass. Do we have a budget update? Budget update for your review
096as well. No. No update. Perfect. Look at this. We go to the policy update 123 12 uh 123 124 125 and that's uh Mr. Ramirez. You can see here usually there's nothing or All right. Any questions on the policy updates 123, 124, and 125? Yes, you do. Make a motion to approve the policy updates 123, 124, and 125. Motion B Martinez. Second by Mr. Cost in favor say I. I. All say nay. Motion passes 7:35 and we go to executive session. Oh, sorry. I'm sorry. Before we go to sec executive session, Mr. Just can can I go back to item B1 or I can because we already passed it. No. All right, perfect. I just wanted to let the people know about the the ruling on UI, but that's fine. Uh 7:35 we go to
097executive session.