001Hello. Good morning. Morning. Good morning. I'm trying to see who was going to be available today. I think the mayor. One, two, three. I'm on. Thank you, sir. I'm not showing my face though because I got on my garden gardener gear. with my crazy hat and all that little stuff. Understood. You see my chat message, right? Yes. So, I'm I'm in Card Negro. We We got a bit of a joke about stuff like that. This world is too serious about world is serious, that's for sure. Yeah, we blowing each other up, but I'm still planting hostas and trying to put the plants in the right place so they can bloom. It's like kids. Planting hostas instead of hostility. That's the way. There you go. There you go. That's That's that will coxian wit. I think
002we'll wait. Well, we have a quorum. So, we have a quorum. So, let's go ahead and call this meeting to order. Dr. Yarro is not going to be able to join us today. So, ask me to chair. Um, we So, we're calling together this special board of education meeting and there is one item on the agenda and that is the agreement with Integrity Concepts LLC Incorporated. Um, Dr. White. Good morning everyone. This is uh bringing back the part-time custodial contract that uh was tabled uh two meetings ago because we wanted to do due diligence. As the cover memo stated, uh concerns were raised by the local union. We wanted to meet with them to hear about the concerns from SEIU Union. uh it was around the group not being party to the uh areawide agreement
003that they have. There were no concerns and no at there were no known concerns of treatment of workers. So with that uh the costs uh to meet the union standards were were proposed and we are ready to move forward with bringing in the part-time custodial group. All right. Thank you Dr. Mayor Aler. Thanks Dr. White. Can can you just explain? So it sounds like you proposed the what the union was requesting and what did the company do in response? Uh they they have agreed to join the ser uh the area agreement and and then uh accordingly uh reorganize their pricing structure and it was still within our tolerance. Okay. Thanks for um to you and your team for um helping work through this. You're welcome. All right, Dr. Gardner Joiner. Thank you. Um uh Dr.
004White, will we have any control over whom they hire? Uh yes. what uh the company has agreed with. Uh we'll be sending out a survey to principles to in terms of recommending people who've done a good job and so that those people can be brought over into this contract and what will be their administrative structure? What what kind of influence do we have on that? Uh we'll be meeting with them regularly. The most important thing is there will be no change orders or change increases in prices or any overtime assigned without uh direct consulting from the district approving it before it happens. So are you are you confident that with a chief operating officer and a facilities director that we'll have the guard rails in place so that we can be more effective and more
005functional and cost effective going forward? Yes. One of the one of the key things uh was the robust monitoring to make sure staffing was in place and then combined with making sure uh we're matching up what or we're being charged for an overtime we should not have any surprises in terms of billing and yes it is intention to have uh continual monitoring of this and Dr. Wright one last question. First of all, let me thank you for your diligence and your attention to detail, not just in this, but in everything you do. Um, I know that when I was a principal, I played a big role in giving feedback to the person who was in charge of building maintenance, Ron Mesa, uh, at the time. And can we develop instrumentation or do we already have
006instrumentation that will engage the principal perhaps members of the SPMT as well as our own custodians in assessing the the quality of the work. We I I will look at what our current structures are. I believe some of that's in place, but everything it's summer time. are coming into this is time to to review and make sure things are more robust as we start the next fiscal year. Okay. And and because a lot of the national organizations have instruments and they're user friendly basically assessing whether or not whatever work was allegedly performed was in in fact performed. So u I'll I'll forward some stuff to you um as well. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. White. All right. Thank you. Any other comments or questions? I think was Dr. McBron. Did she put a chat on
007Oh, yes. I wanted Dr. White to talk also about the attendance because that was a big piece for us. Right. Right. There's there's electronic attendance tools that are going to be in place uh to ensure that uh staff is on site and checked in. So that part of that will help with the billing structure. This this is a big deal stuff that you guys are doing now. You know, they can't play games. All right. As for myself, I I want to thank um staff for going back and having the conversations with the vendor. I do note that this is a not to exceed contract and so um you know diligence in the invoices and and the electronic attendance system and everything is going to be very helpful in maybe reducing these costs from the upper
008limit of the not to exceed that we're seeing here because I know financial issues are um certainly what we're in in this next fiscal year. So, I do appreciate that and I'm hoping we see better performance from this vendor with our previous and uh so thanks for being responsive and uh working with this vendor and uh do hope that we can control these costs in um good deployment of this part-time workforce that are going to have some extra benefits uh through the area contract. So, thank you for that. Um thank you. So hearing and seeing no other comments, we'll go ahead and bring uh is there a motion to approve this uh agreement? So move Mr. Chair. All right. Is there a second? I'll second. So it was moved by Dr. Joiner, seconded by Mr.
009Huarez. So is there any discussion? Hearing none, we'll go ahead and vote. Dr. Joiner, yes. Mr. Huarez, yes. Dr. Bonitez, yes. Mayor Eller, yes. And I'm a yes as well. Making sure I had everybody. Yes. Uh, so it's unanimous. The motion carries. Uh, that next item. Oh, the there is a information only item here, but there's no other uh action items. So, is there a motion to adjurnn? So moved. So second. It's been moved and seconded. We shall vote. It was moved by Dr. Joiner, seconded by Mr. Huarez. Dr. Joiner, how do you vote? Yes. Mr. Huarez, yes. Dr. Bonitez, yes. Mayor Eller, yes. I'm a yes as well. We are adjourned. Thank you everybody. Have a great weekend, guys. Be safe. Hostage is not hostility.