001Time is now 6 PM on June the 17th and this regular meeting of the El Campo Independent Board of Trustees is now called to order. Let the record show that this meeting was duly posted in accordance with section 551.043 the Texas Government Code with regards to public uh meetings. There is a quorum of members present. At this time, if you will arise, I'll lead you in a prayer and the pledge. Let's bow our heads. Lord, thank you for uh bringing us together yet again to discuss the important decisions uh for this school district. Um let us always remember who we serve. Let us uh always make decisions that that impact our our community positively and help our kids and our staff and and help them do do their job uh better and more effectively. We
002ask these things in your name. Amen. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. At regular meetings, the uh board allows 15 minutes to hear people who desire to make public comment. Uh persons wishing to to uh participate in this section of the uh public comment uh do sign up and uh no presentation exceeds 5 minutes and uh we will if you start running close to that we will uh notify you of that. Be it be aware that during this time public comment your topic may not be on the agenda. So it it it is not allowed for the board to have a back and forth with the folks that
003have that make public comment. Uh so we will hear you out. Uh you'll get your five minutes and then uh we will follow up with you after uh the meeting in the next 3 or 4 days probably via email and that's why we have you sign up. So um we have had two uh persons uh sign up. The first one is Eileen Aendando and uh she'd like to talk about the concession stands. Welcome and thanks for being here. Hello. All right. So, hello board members. My name is Eileen Alendano and I am a band parent but also the head chairperson for the concession stands this upcoming season. I'd like to address some some cons sorry I'd like to address some security concerns at the stadium. Um board members, we've gave you given you a summary
004report of incident descriptions. Um the concessions have been broken into three separate times between April and May. There are no cameras installed near the concessions to capture the breakins. So we can't file reports to have the suspects prosecuted. The suspects are most likely used being at the stadium track after hours. The turnaround gate to enter the track area being locked doesn't stop individuals from jumping the fence to gain access. The suspects are getting inside the concession stands through the rollup windows. They are outdated, blocks are bent, and can easily be manipulated from the outside to unlock. Each incident has caused loss of product and or damage to property. The refrigerator door handles are all broken and must be replaced. The last incident, suspects sprayed the fire extinguisher all over the main concession stand and tried
005to do the same to the visitor side. It's a mess. Um, who's to say the next time they get bored, they won't vandalize our turf or the stadium bleachers? Recommended solutions might be to add cameras with straight sidelines to each concession stand, reduce the access points, um have less rollup windows, maybe wall up some that we really don't need, don't use, um and update the rollup service windows to what is at the baseball field concession stand. Um we're going to have products to be delivered the last week of August to be ready for our football season. So, we're trying to secure as much as we can before our products are in there. There's nothing in there now. Thank you. You're welcome. Appreciate it. And uh we will follow up with you. Um the next person
006uh is Shelby Kilgore who also wants to discuss uh concession stands. Thank you for being here. Good evening. Uh my name is Shelby Kilgore and I'm a parent in the district and a current the current president of the Elcampo Band Parents Booster Club. I am speaking tonight about the recurring break-ins and vandalism at the high school stadium concession stands. These incidents have become an ongoing concern, not only because of the financial cost of repairs and stolen property, but also because they they affect the facilities that support our students, athletic programs, and community events. The repeated damage suggests that the current measures in place are not adequately adequately deterring vandalism or protecting district property. Continuing to make temporary repairs after each in incident may ultimately cost the district more than implementing stronger preventative measures. I respectfully
007ask the board and district administration to consider installing security cameras in and around the concession stand areas to improve monitoring and help identify those responsible for future incidents. I also ask that the district evaluate the condition of the concession stand rollup windows and consider significant repairs or replacement with more secure alter alternatives that can better withstand attempted break-ins. Taking proactive steps now could reduce future costs, protect district assets, and help ensure these facilities remain available and safe for students and the community. Thank you for your time and consideration. Thank you. Anybody else? No one else signed up, but I I would like to give Michael a chance to introduce himself. Okay. He he didn't sign up, but that's okay. He came by earlier and I was at the chamber meeting. So, yes, sir. Uh my
008name is Michael Montio. I'm the new TAM liaison, county leazison officer for the uh Warren County. Uh notice there's now I don't want to be like just jumping in here and I know this is my first time here, but I'm I'm new to the area, so I just wanted to get a feel for the community and the ISD. Uh unfortunately my daughter just graduated so she will not be joining you guys. I live right up the street. So uh but she's going to TCU and she's you know loving it there. So um again I'm here uh if you guys need anything I just working down in Morton and I'll make myself available for whenever you need. Great. Great to have you. Thanks for coming. Anybody else? Yes sir. Okay. Uh item number three is a
009is excuse me. Uh yeah, item number three is recognition our state track and field qualifiers. All right. Well, um I have Coach Whitney Coles here. Coach Coles has been our um head girls track coach, Madison Holmes and her mom. And so I'm going to have Coach uh Coles come up and brag on all the accomplishments that Madison has achieved. We may take all night. Can we bring Maddie up to Come on, Maddie. You and your mom come up and get in the middle. She loves that. Well, see, you'll be on you'll be on camera for tomorrow when when Miss Valerie posts this. Um I know that uh we had two state qualifiers this year. Um Ava Simper, who was a sophomore, uh qualified in the 800 and unfortunately she couldn't make it today, but wanted
010to just recognize her. Um that's a huge accomplishment. The 800 is a tough race. Um, and so we are extremely excited for her. Um, I will not um, sadly be here to um, coach her, but I will be keeping up with Elcampo and all those things. And I'm super excited about her future for um, not only the 800, but she is one of the fierce legs on our mile relay as well as uh, running the open quarter. She did break Mattiey's 400 meter record um, this year. So, Maddie passed on one of her school records to Ava. Um, and I'm sure Mattiey's totally fine with that, especially in the 400, right? Um, just kind of touching about Maddie. Maddie, this is her fourth year that you guys have recognized her. Um, which is an extremely
011uh rare accomplishment to uh make it back to the state championship four years in a row. Um, one of the things I wanted to point out, last year was really tough on Maddie. Maddie suffered a uh injury and then battled back. She showed a lot of resilience um and ended uh her senior year at the state track meet running her fastest time since her sophomore year when she won state. So huge accomplishment for Maddie. Maddie also for the first time this year um qualified in long jump to the uh state track meet. Um and so if you talk to Maddie at all, she loves long jump but also has like a lovehate relationship with long jump because she says it makes her really tired. Um, but taking six jumps um before she gets out on
012the uh track to run the 100 meter dash is tiring. I definitely uh would probably agree with that. But um she did a fantastic job there uh placing sixth at state um in long jump. And again, like I said uh for the 100 meter dash, she placed fifth overall and uh barely missed the podium. Um the past three years, I've gotten to give y'all some really cool stats about track and field and about Maddie and what she's accomplished. But one of the things that uh I wanted to talk to y'all about today was only 2% of all female high school athletes um track and field athletes in the nation signed to division 1 track and field and Maddie has signed a run at Prairie A&M. So she is among the top 2% in the 2026
013class. The other and last statistic I wanted to share with you guys is making it back to the 4A UIL state championships four years in a row. There is a 0.0000635% chance of doing that or in other words a one in600 person um reason or ability to do that. So Maddie you're not only an incredible athlete but mom you already know this. She's an awesome human and uh I've had an an incredible time coaching her. So, thank y'all. Thank y'all for that. Thank you, Coach Reeve. He knows I'm a crier, so but just very proud. And thank y'all for recognizing her yet again. Thank you. Very cool. Great job. Good luck. Knock them dead, Maddie. I wouldn't know, but I would think that long jump, if you get moving as fast as you get moving,
014if you just pick your feet up, you're pro you're probably going to go pretty good ways. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Uh item number four is our consent agenda. Uh consent agenda according to board local policy be consent agenda is provided that includes notice uh items of a routine or reoccurring nature grouped together under one action item. Board members we've all been furnished with background information. Is there anything that anybody wants to have pulled out and acted on under a separate motion? Bob, is there anything you want to comment on? Uh just want to make sure that the board is well aware that we will continue our contract with ABS West. Uh we put in there our contracted services with region 3 and we are going to continue the K9 contraband and detection contract as
015we head into 2026 2027. There being nothing to be considered uh independently I'll seek a motion for the consent agenda. Have a motion by Mr. uh Mr. Cannell and a second by Mr. Moreno. All in favor, raise your right hand. Oppose, same sign. Motion carries unanimously with Mr. DuBroc not in attendance. Our next uh item is a quick item presentation. Uh 5A1 uh takes us to the board as a whole u visited the summer leadership institute uh in San Antonio put on by TASB. I'll make uh a little comment on it and then y'all can add to it if you feel like you need to. Uh lot of lot of educational opportunities. The board is required uh to do some continuing education as a uh as a as a member of the board. Uh oddly
016enough, United States senators or anybody like that does not have to do any uh continuing education. But uh I will I'll I digress. But uh anyway, we we uh we attended those. It was a uh three-day session uh class uh keynote speaker in the morning uh breakout sessions that you can attend over a multitude of topics. We all attended uh various topics sometimes uh overlapping most of the time not and uh it was a good good trip. It always is a It's always a a nice uh uh thing that Tasby puts on and it's very educational. Anything else? Uh I'm leaving out. All right. You did good job. Uh our next item, the presentation item is uh business and operations. The cash defeasants prepared by USCA Municipal Advisors LLC in the amount of $1.95 million
017uh delivery date of July 9, 2026. Board members, we put this in your packet. You'll recall back in August of 2025, the board voted for us to continue with the defeasants. And so the information was in your packet and just wanted to tell you that we're about ready to defease those bonds and pay off more debt. It has a double benefit. It lowers the amount of money that we owe and at the same time it saves us quite a bit of um interest in interest funds and we're fortunate to be able to do it. Yes. Uh I will seek do we need a motion? Just that's just FYI. He already passed it in August. Awesome. Okay. Uh that takes us to curriculum and instruction item uh 6B1. Uh discuss consider approval of the amendments to
018stipen supplemental pay and professional pay grade structures to be implemented for the 2026-27 school year. So board members in your packet towards the very end we have uh given you our supplemental compensation package um we are recommending that we uh change this is on page at the very end 912 and 90 91 92 500 of the PDF it's on page 532 well that's a lot bigger than my packet yeah it's a that policy Yeah. And so, uh, we're recommending that on page, um, whatever your very first page, that we increase the bilingual stipend from the present $3,200 to $4,000. That would put us in the average. Stipends are kind of an odd thing around the state. Some school districts offer stipends in certain areas, others do not. It pretty much is a is a local
019decision and based upon the amount of incentive you have to provide to people to come to your district. But $4,000 is a typical average. Not all school districts pay a bilingual stipend, but it's been $3,200 since probably when Alicia was a principal, maybe even before. And so we are going to recommend that we increase that from 3,200 to 4,000. Uh, we're also going to recommend that we eliminate the stipends you find on the next page, as we don't have individuals serving in those capacities any longer. Alicia has earned a grant for the mentor prep. so those stipends are all uh dependent upon that particular grant. It is part of the grant. It's coming from the state. So that's not going to cost the district any money. When the grant goes away, so does this stipend.
020Back to the AVID, those two. We're not gonna are we not going to have those positions? Is that correct? We haven't had it's been a long time since we had a district AVID coordinator. Correct. Yeah, because I'm just doing Yeah. No, it was just It was just hanging out on the list. We're modifying some things with AVID. Okay. Yeah. And and picking up some things with CKH that kind of overlap. And then um on the last page, the pay structure, we're recommending that we um change the diagnostician's pay grade from 3 to 6 to match the LSSPs. Are the days for three and six the same as far as the number of days in the contract? The number of days is separate from the from that, but we we plan to continue our diagnosticians at
021192 days, which is where they are presently from the 187. So, they have five additional days for ARS and things at the beginning of the year and a little bit at the end of the year to catch up on things that they might not have finished by the time the students left. So, the number of days doesn't change, it just the the daily rate changes. You're right. Right. Okay. Okay. Questions? I will seek a motion to approve the amendments to the stipend, supplemental pay, and professional pay grade structures to be implemented for the 2026-2027 school year. Have a motion by Miss Smith and a second by Miss Nohavitza. All in favor, raise your right hand. Oppose, same sign. Motion carries unanimously. Uh that'll take us into closed session. Uh and coming out of closed session,
022no business. There'll be no business. So uh if anybody has something they need to get to, they can certainly do that. Uh we hope we lived up to your expectations tonight. Uh time is now 6:19 and the board will now uh adjourn into closed session under Texas government code 551.074 and te uh Texas government code 551.076 and 551.89. Sure. All right.