001Good evening. Thank you uh for everyone being here this evening. Uh it is 6:30. We're going to go ahead and begin our board workshop. Uh thank you Dr. Barera, um Mr. Pena, Miss Paty Garcia, and Mr. Jesse Solis for being here tonight. I do want to let everyone know that Mr. Ramirez could not be here tonight because he's under the weather. So, let's go ahead and continue. Miss Gonzalez, do we have anyone uh that signed up? All right. Thank you, ma'am. Um, we're going to go to item four, finance. Did we Did we give those are these the separate reports, Mr. Robles? >> Yes. Okay. You have the separate reports there for a finance reports. Reports on tax collection for the month of August 2025. You have item two, report on budget balances for the
002month of August 2025. You also have item three, report on monthly check register for the month of August 2025. And you also have item four, report on district staff data for the month of August 2025. And you also have report uh on item five, report on certification of estimated debt collections rates and excess debt collection. Those are all there for your review. Unless you need anything explained or you have any questions, please let us know. Mr. Robles, is there anything in these reports that you feel the need to have to explain? >> No, unless they have questions. Mes. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Are we even here yet? Yeah. In the overtime report, the 1.4 million, it's the overtime plus the regular salary. The overtime Thank you. If there are no uh other questions, we'll go
003ahead and move to item Item 4B presentation on of delinquent tax collection report for the period of July 1st 2024 through June 30th 2025 presented by Haime E Gonzalez. >> Should I sit? Go >> ahead. Thank you. Dr. Vetta, >> hello. >> Hime Gonzalez with Linbarger. Um I'm here to present on our end of the year report from July 1st, 2024 through June 30th, 2025. Um, I hope each of you have our packet that we presented or I guess in the PowerPoint, but to let you know and and everybody that's watching at home at with Limebar, our principal goal is to communicate with your taxpayers and we've been giving an edict by Dr. Bera and the council to do so compassionately. So, our our key phrase we try to use when we're reaching out to
004your taxpayers, and I'm here also with Felipe Garasa. he's our area manager that um we're able to use an office in Rio Grand ISD. So, we're very appreciative of that. Um is compassionate collections. So, for this past year, our main tool is demand letters. So, we mailed out over 13,000 demand letters this past year. When that doesn't work, we we had no response. We moved to phone calls. We did over 700 phone calls this past year. When that doesn't work, we go to we call knock and talk where we actually go out to the taxpayers's homes and knock on their door and say, "Look, you haven't reached out to us. You haven't paid any taxes. We do you want to enter in a payment plan?" And that's what we're really trying to do is communicate.
005Um that resulted in 32 payment agreements. And when that doesn't work, the last resort we do is litigation. And we try to avoid that for for a lot of reasons. predominantly because uh for the fact that that adds court costs, service fees, additional expenses on top of taxes and and the preferences is to enter a payment plan. But sometimes when you have a a sheriff deputy come to your house and serve you with paperwork and you get notice from a court to appear in court, people understand that it's serious. And even at that point, we still enter into payment plans. So we filed 53 lawsuits this past year, disposed of 60 cases, took 46 judgments. Um, even after we take judgments, we still entering a payment plans to try to resolve these cases. Last resort
006is to take cases to sale. As you can see in my report, we have over 527 cases that are pending. And you can see it's a huge amount there, 7.9 million. Uh I can tell you I get asked a lot of the times, so why is that so so high? Why are there so many cases pending? Predominantly because we are in payment plans. So once we get into court, um a payment plan is entered and the case is passed along until those those payments are completed and we can move forward to non-suit. If it's not for that reason, there are a lot of properties out there, especially here in Stark County that portiones that it's very difficult to identify the the land, identify the exact property. We need to do that. Of course, we're going
007to move forward to sale and to identify all the the proper property owners. All these properties have owners that have passed away and there's literally dozens of heirs that we need to talk to and to serve in these and these losses before we can move to judgment. So, we did have a tax sale this past year. The next page reflects a tax sale. We sold two properties, pulled three of them um uh because of various issues that we had um with the property descriptions. We sold one resale property and we pulled four properties uh because of payment agreements. We able to generate $36,000 uh in collections for Rio Grand City Guru ISD. And for the main part in the bottom of page three of my report, you can see what our collections have been for
008the past three years. I'm very proud to announce um that I'm the face you see here, but it's most of the work goes to the team that you don't see led by Felipe Gomez sitting right over there that we've had the highest collections we've had for the past three years. And actually, I went back four years, the highest in the past four years. This past year, we collected for the the district over $2.2 million compared to last year's $2 million. So, I'm very happy about that. We're continuing to work hard. I can tell you with the properties that we're targeting, there was no families displaced. The properties that we target to sell are abandoned, uh, vacant properties, um, or vacant lots or commercial properties. And we do our best that if there's any families that
009are living in these homes, whether they're homestead designated or not, we try to work out payment agreements even after judgment. That's concludes my report. Any questions? >> Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Gonzalez. >> Thank you so much. >> Item 4C, consider and take possible action on donations to Real Grand City Guru ISD. And they're there for your review. If there are no questions, we'll go ahead and move on to item 4 D. Consider and take possible action on tax refunds for the month of August 2025. Is that a separate handout or is it in there? >> It's separate. >> Okay. It's also separate. >> Yes. And there are no questions. We'll move on to item. Did you have a question? Nope. Item 4E. Consider and take possible action on TASB risk management participation
010agreement or unemployment benefits. There are no questions. We'll move on to item 4 F. Consider and take possible action on agreement with Alfredo Vela for audit consulting services. J I have a quick question. How long does an audit take then? About how many how many days or how many hours do you estimate that they'll be? >> We we have six months after the conclusion of the fiscal year to submit the audit to to TA. So basically right now we have less than three months left. >> Less than three months to complete the There are no other questions. We'll move on to item 4G. Consider and take possible action on pay application number 27 from Gerlock Builders for Gria Middle School. >> Thank you, Mr. Garca. >> Good evening. Uh >> we have four items. Uh
011if uh you have any questions on uh the pay applications that we're submitting >> I know Marin you've been working closely with uh that man over there at Gria Middle u Pepe I want to say or no >> Pepe is the one in charge right now. Yes sir. >> Um how's it going? And I'm I'm referring to Marip. I know Marin's been out there a little bit quite a bit out there with some issues that have been happening in Delphino. Uh and they're minor, nothing major. It's just an update m as to how it's looking there and uh if if uh we're satisfied with the work that's been done on >> Madame President, uh members of the board, Miss Garca, superintendent of schools, it has uh little things here and there. I know we had
012that drain issue. It it was on Gerlock. They ended up finding like a like a burlap sack that was that was uh in the pipes. So, they were able to get that out. Everything's been working well. We had an issue with one room that was a little on the warm side. That was taken care of. So, we've had things like that that have uh come up. They're still working on the punch list, but right now uh so far so good. Everything's going great with the campus. Thank you. >> And the more you use the building, the more things will be apparent and they can address them. But uh that is uh the way that it it works, you know. But uh yes, there are some punch list items and they haven't completed them, but uh
013by and large, I would say 90% of the stuff has been completed. >> Okay, no other questions. Move on to item 4 I excuse me 4. Consider and take possible action on pay application number 28 from Gerlock Builders for Gria Middle School. >> Is this the last 2 million defin we have in retention or no? >> What was that again? >> Is that the last 2 million that we have in retention? Because it's $2.36 million. Is that the last is that the retention or or is this >> there would still be uh almost $45,000 left in the contract? >> In the contract. Yeah. Okay. Uh in particular, 44,800 is still a balance left on the contract. So, we're we're holding that until all those little items are uh you know, taken care of. No other
014questions. We'll move on to item 4. I consider and take possible action on pay application statement number seven from design group international for Gria Middle School. Uh this pay application uh it is up to a little under what the contractor is asking for. So I believe the contractor is at 99.9%. We're at 99.80%. So, we're a little bit below what the contractor uh progress is, and we would have a balance of about $900. There are no questions. We move on to item 4J. Consider and take possible action on pay application statement number one from design group international for food service warehouse known as paying warehouse. Uh yes ma'am. We uh we worked on three different uh buildings for the food service. Uh at the beginning it was a a new facility and we didn't spend
015too much time on it. We went to meetings, we went to job sites to look at uh this new facility uh where it was going to be located. Uh we didn't do much work on that. Uh the second facility we that we have a and we have a contract for was the pain warehouse and uh we're charging up to 25% of our fee on that and then uh later uh the the school district changed buildings from the paint warehouse to the tractor supply and we did at least 25% on the tractor supply that we're going to uh leave on the table. We're not going to charge for that, but we would like to get paid for the paint warehouse. >> And so this is just paint warehouse. >> That that's it. Yeah, >> this one
016we need to pull pull from consent because I think it was still looking he was still looking over some stuff. Okay. So, we'll go ahead and pull item 4 J from consent. >> Thank you, Mr. GarcA. >> Thank you. >> If there are no other questions, we'll move on to item 4K, consider and take possible action on region one memorandum agreement. I had a question for this one. Is this something that we have been using in the past? >> Hi, Miss Jones. >> Good evening, everyone. Uh, yes, the region one memorandum, those are those are fees that we pay and our district employees get to go to any training that's provided by region one. the M. There are some that have additional fees, but we do get a lot of trainings for our counselors, our
017teachers, our administrators as well through that uh fee that we pay that agreement. Are there no questions? We'll move on to item 4 K, sorry, 4 L. Consider and take possible action on data suite software renewal. And this is also just a renewal. Do you have any questions? >> It's it's required. I mean, we need it as a district. That's our main >> correct. Okay. >> Without it, we don't operate. >> Thank you, Miss Jones. >> Thank you. >> No other questions. Move on to item 4 M. Consider and take possible action on requisitions 5,000 and over. And those are there for your review. There was an addendum. I believe >> several addendums. >> Two. >> One was in here. >> Quick question. Marin at at Veterans Middle School. I know they were going to
018work with a train VA. Uh they were going to see if they could fix uh the the chillers there uh using some of the the parts that were already there readily available. Now, >> yeah, you all approved already those items. We're waiting for them to come in. Once those parts come in along with what we have currently there at Veterans Middle School, they're hoping to be able to make them both work long enough that we can do away with the rental. >> Do you foresee how much longer we're going to be with the rentals? Mine or no? Like a >> as soon as as soon as the parts come come in, he said within 3 to 5 days, they'll they'll be able to tell us if if they can sustain for until the actual system
019comes in. Oh, sounds good. And we apologize board for the addendums that were given to y'all last minute, but these are things that are really needed. These this is our roofing and our HVAC. That is the reason that you just received it today. >> Was the repair wear and tear thoseund,000? those the repair roof at Veterans Middle School because it says pressure wash area and apply industrial cleaner, but I I thought it was just cleaning, but then I saw the the price. Is that like repairs like wear and tear or >> roof roof repairs? Yeah, we have a lot of issues with our roofs at at uh a lot of our campuses. Uh again, we're focusing on the campuses that have major issues with the roofs and then from there we'll kind of move on
020to to the other campuses. But those are are more of the of the bigger issues. Are there no further questions? Thank you, Mr. Lopez. We'll move on to item 4 in consider and take possible action on requisitions under task B policy CH local purchasing and acquisition. Is this the one that's a recommendation for 5,000 to 50,000? I don't know. without. Do you all have any questions at this time? I'll give you a few more minutes to overlook that. Uh Diana, when we when we talk about these purchase orders without uh uh purchases without purchase orders, let's say you tell me uh for example, Gurua High School uh meals for travel $27. That does that come from their general fund or it comes from the district general fund? Anything that's bought with with out of here,
021where does it come out of? >> Since that belongs to prior year, I made sure they took it away from their budgets this year. >> Okay. So, it's going to hurt. It's going to affect their budget. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Sorry, guys. >> Any other questions on that? >> No, we're good. >> Okay. Thank you, sir. We're going to move on to item 5A. Consider and take possible action on request for use of school facilities from Miss Real Grandandy City Pageant Association for the Miss Real Grandandy City Pageant on October the 4th, 2025. And they are requesting board to use our auditorium several dates. We do have some in September, others in October, and we have a date in November. And if you don't mind, I'll also read item B because it refers to the
022same thing. considering take possible action on requests for use of school facilities from Missville Granny City Pageant Association for the Miss County Pageant on November 2nd, 2025. >> And for that one, Miss Robles, I just wanted us to clarify what this policy so that we make sure we're following the policy. >> Yes. Whenever any outside organization or anybody in the community requests to use the facilities, we're supposed to be charging them of as a rental fee, also for a custodian, for maintenance, for any electricity that we use because the district is the one being affected by lending out this uh facilities without charging them the proper fees. So basically we usually bring this for your approval because policy calls that we should be uh charging them and so whenever they request not to charge them
023uh we ask for your permission or your authorization to wait those fees. >> Okay. And the fees, I think we saw the fees which are minimal. I think around $75 per day, which that covers a custodian and and cleanup and things like that. >> Do we have any further questions on this on these two items? >> Okay. >> Thank you, Mr. Rob. >> Thank you. >> We'll move on to item 6A. consider and take possible action on amending 2526 2025 I'm sorry 2026 compensation plan. Dr. Selenus. >> Madame President, members of the board, Superintendent of Schools, Miss Garasa, the first couple of pages on your pass out is an amendment to the current compensation plan for 2025 2026. As you see on your first section, I'll let you look at a couple of pages, but
024the first section is is all specialled. Um, these are positions ranging from instructional aids to homebound services, instruction for homebound services. As you can see at the very end, right before that red line that separates that section, we're looking at uh funding it through special ed 224 and title one funds. Has this funding already come in? >> We the title one is special. >> Title one was released, Mr. Pñena. That's correct. Uh I know Miss uh we met with the superintendent, Miss Robles, and that those monies were available. Correct. Now, we do have a contingency plan. If you do see the asterisks on all the positions, we do have a contingency plan in case that we were to see funds tight either title one, the 224 we did confirm is there, but the title one
025is a schoolwide function. We could, you know, districtwide. So, we do have a plan there. Uh the sub and existing vacancy would turn into a campusled homebound instruction for 504, which we're trying to avoid to help our campuses. And the instructional aids would be long-term subs that are already budgeted in our budget. So that would instead of having the 384,000, you would look at a total of 61,000. That's a contingency plan we have. >> Yeah. No, I'm just concerned with the title one because you know how they said that federal monies were being held back and yes, >> I was hoping that they would come in before September 1st to cover those costs. >> On the second section, you do see the portion of the 199. As you can see, these are teaching positions. We're
026happy to say some classes did grow. We had additional kinder and each kinder class obviously would have a instructional aid. So that's what you see there. We last board meeting we did ask for positions to be reallocated at zero cost. You can see the cost is zero just the transportation. Uh we want to revert those back to where they were. So we're just going back to where we were last time. So it's zero cost. We did have some employees who were hired above the midpoint or the position that they took over for years of experience. So that's the next section you see there. And then we had a facilitator join one of our campuses who had a assistant principal vacancy. So we're just swapping that assistant principal vacancy back to the campus where the facilitator
027come and allotting the the librarian position to that campus at no cost. So, we're just making clear to our FTEEs where they belong. On the next section, you do see the lead center initiative. On the lead center, I do want to point out that this is uh pending grant funding and of course, there's a partnership with region one, the Senate bill 1882 as I referred to. And uh we do have some initiatives within that house bill to be able to cut those those uh positions and use current staff and award the stipens as you see there. On the next section, you do see what we presented to the board as far as the if the voter approved tax ratification election. We did allocate all 100% of the funds to employee raises. And you see the
028TR breakdown. It's $3,000 for admin, uh, I'm sorry, contract employees, all contract employees above what the board approved and a $2 raise for all hourly employees above what the board approved. And we did present at the board meeting that it was a $700,000 above the voter approved the voter approved tax ratification election. We presented a savings plan, so leaving an amount of $100,000. And of course, we're being very, very conservative there. We feel confident it'll cover the whole amount. And on the last section, you do see the district counselor leadership team that uh there's a stipen for a district representative, elementary representative, middle school representative, high school representative, and you see one of the administrative positions that it's vacant. It's not taken right now. We'd like to close that position and use those funds to
029fund that initiative. And you still have an extra $70,000 available. >> Would this be for one year only, K, or or would it be ongoing year after year? I'm concerned only because and and and me coming from a former administrator, I know that when we start giving stipens and if it's for a year, it's fine. But let's say moving down the road, uh when we want to pull back those stipens, how are we going to deal with those individuals? You know, >> it's very hard when you start them with a stipen and they try and pull it back. >> It's going to it's going to cause friction. So all along my my my suggestion would be to have found a a director of counseling and just pay the salary on there. I mean but it's
030if that's what's available right now. I mean what can we do? I'm just looking at it for our own safeguard because that's what we're trying to get away from in the past from issuing out stipens and it seems like we're falling back into that that situation again. >> Yes sir. >> The only thing that I can say Mr. that every time that we do issue a stipen now, we do bring it, you know, up to the board so you all can approve. I do understand that we are going to try that for one year and with a savings like Doc said of about $70,000 uh with the hopes that next year we can uh get a director of counseling. >> And let me just add Dr. just mentioned something and yes when we do speak
031to these individuals the ones that did decide to take on uh these extra duties they understand that it is just a onetime stipen >> thank you ma'am >> and they agree to that as well thank you >> yes sir thank you >> are you done yes with this okay any questions on Okay, there are no other questions. We move on to item 6B. Consider and take possible action on adding the additional day school year, also known as AXI, to the approved 2025 2026 instructional school calendar. >> Thank you, ma'am. So the ADC the extended days school year initiative is uh as you can see in the handout that we provided right before your calendar there's three options and we chose option one as a district we already met the 180 days. Actually there's legislation going
032on right now to let you go back to minutes versus having the 180 days but we we're still scheduled for 180 instructional days. So we chose option one and an additional 30 days for uh instruction. And the way this works, the state of Texas, if you have the 30-day calendar, additional from the 180s, they will fund the K5 at a half day initiative, a half day aotment. I do want to point out for the record and and I hope it's okay, Miss Alman. I for the record, I did make a mistake on the instructional calendar. It's supposed to be 30 days. I missed one week in July. I should if you look at uh June, it's in whatever color that is, purple. Um, that's 25 days and then I'm missing one week in July. Just
033for the record, it it by by law it has to be 30 days. So, just for the record, it'll go into the first week of July. And again, this is state funded. Uh, we're looking forward to that. There's a minimum of two hours of instruction. So again, K5 state funded half-day aotment. If there are no questions, we'll move on to item 6 C, consider and take possible action on bus driver retention program for 2025 2026. >> Thank you. On this initiative, we have the bus driver retention program. And as you can see in your handout, of course, this is pending our legal review. There's a lot of uh citing of local policies and citing of federal laws, but this proposal has been brought to to the table. We met with Miss GarcA and her cabinet
034and we've put this forth obviously to try to retain our bus drivers. And what this does, if you look at the purpose, this is a strategic initiative developed by our district to retain and reward bus drivers who qualify to work in designated departments. So what this means is, I believe the bus drivers and their routes at 9:15 and clock back in at 2:15. So you're having a gap in between. What we want to do, and you look, if you read through all that, all that language is all federal law, and we'll talk about that in a minute. But what that is is if there's an a full-time aotment at maintenance or a full-time aotment at uh at uh CMP, a bus driver, he or she can take the opportunity to apply for that, even if
035it's a substitute, can apply for the full-time position or a substitute basis. And from 9:15 to 2:15, obviously with an hour lunch, they have to take their lunch. They they're able to work at the same hourly rate as they do as a bus driver. And uh what we cited with with federal law is two things. Number one, our position is right now, of course, pending legal review. If I'm a bus driver and I end up at child nutrition for those 3 hours for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, that will not add to the overtime rate because it is two different positions. And I quoted some of the the the federal laws in there. I won't read them, but it's it's it's in there where you have two different jobs. It's not considered overtime. So obviously from
036a bus driver to a custodian or helping out at the cafeteria two different jobs and two different uh job descriptions. So our recommendation is to have as mentioned in this rough draft talks about all our bus drivers will have the opportunity to apply for these positions whether it be substitute basis or or a part-time position and during the off time we'll be able to work and help the district out at their hourly rate. >> And um Dr. as uh we did have a lot of still maintenance overtime, correct? We still have and so this would also help >> Yes, ma'am. >> compensate or or >> balance out. >> Yes. Alleviate the over. >> Yeah. And then another thing that we need to point out is why we're doing this and it's because we've been having
037um problems keeping our bus drivers because we're we're our pay is not, you know, that high and um because of this the time that they're off throughout the day. So, I think it's a good idea. >> Correct. And I know we noticed like and speaking some of the principles today, your teachers are, you know, there's a lot of flu going on there. It's hard to find substitutes. Same concept in maintenance, same concept in CMP. You have two or three people out, four people at a campus. Very difficult. So people are available. They've applied. They're ready to go and they're on standby to fill these these positions right there. Of course, for the record, pending legal review. I know there's a lot of federal laws in there that we're looking at, but thank you. >> Thank
038you. >> Okay. Thank you. No other questions. We'll move on to item 6D. considering take possible action on additions, revisions, deletions of local policies resulting from the policy review session conducted on June 17 and 18, 2025 with drafts prepared by TASBY policy service. >> Thank you, ma'am. So, we hired TASBY policy review. It took about a year to to get on their calendar and and I'm glad we did it. They looked at every single policy. It took us two days that the district has. And uh I guess in a nutshell, what I'd like for the board to know and the community to know is um TASBY will give you a recommended policy. Anything added in additional to it to make it more specific, it's more cost to the district and and sometimes it raises red
039flags. For example, what there's two sides of the pendulum on the far end. You look at TASBY tells you don't repeat a law. Just don't repeat it. The law is a law. Don't there's no need to put it on your local policy. And of course, anything administrative in nature should be administrative in nature. Sometimes administrators, we're guilty of putting it in policy, letting the board approve it to give it more meat, more more it's it holds more ground, but that's not the way it should be. Okay? Boards should approve what the board needs to approve. So, you see, I'm not going to go through each one of them, but I I know I tried to email it to you. I know Miss Gonzalez helped me with that to try to get it to you as
040fast as we could so you could review it. Um, again, this is policy review. uh it's been sent to our local legal uh I do recommend approval of these local policies as you can see and not you know not ashamed to say but some of the some from 1987 you see 1996 that have been omitted and you start seeing a trend in a lot of administrative procedures in those policies and that's what TA has me exactly what they're saying don't repeat a law and don't put administrative guidelines on there administrative or administrative so I don't know if anyone has any question I know there's a lot of them. >> We we you know, Jesse and I were talking about one of the one of the proposed policies changes was to change the I think anything
041exceeding uh >> from $5,000 to $50,000 approval by the superintendent. I thought that was a little on the hefty side and if we couldn't review that and talk about it, >> okay, >> that would be CH local. uh because I think the way I think the way the way things have been operating in the past has has has it's not going to help any if if we hike up the the amount that can be approved that way. I think there's a little bit more control and a little bit more you know I mean I don't say leave it at 5,000 but we can go up >> and which one is that one in specific >> that is ch local and I'm glad Miss GarcA Mr. PÑA brought it up because when we met with cabinet
042and met with TASBY the recommendation was 25,000 >> correct >> and and TASBY >> accident put at 50. So the recommendation for CH local is 25,000 >> that that's still a little hefty for us and we had been talking between anywhere between five and 10. >> Okay. So for the exception of C local this one out they want to pull that that specific policy out. Sorry. Um, if there's going to be any amendments, you would specifically pull out board policy CH to make the changes that have been discussed here. And then CH only would be placed for uh the board meeting for a vote. >> So, we'll go ahead and pull out CH local. >> Any other questions or concerns with the policies? >> Other than that, we should be okay. But that was one
043of that stood out like big time. Yes, sir. >> Okay, we'll go ahead and move on to item 6E. Consider and take possible action on teachmart curriculum for eighth grade social studies. >> Thank you, ma'am. This is our eighth grade social studies funded by EMAT. This is a total of $57,000. Of course, this is with the HQIM initiative. So we do recommend the purchase of these uh textbooks funded by EMAT social studies and >> I think it's very important board that we do adopt something um I think our last book adoption was back about nine years ago >> and the tees change I'm speaking of course with Miss Carmona and Mr. Rodriguez the TEICS for social studies change around 2122 with new revisions in 2425 and yet we had no uh updated textbooks and this
044will give us um you know what we need it's it's basically I can't say it's a textbook but it's more of a program or >> we we've used it before foundations it's very effective it it gives it that that feasibility to be able to be used with the with the station rotations where teacher teachers can break it down even to a simpler terms with their kids. Uh so it's nothing it's not nothing new. I think she's updated it with the new taks that have changed. Uh but I mean it worked very effectively >> and we're hoping that our scores will go up because we have been having low scores for the past three years. >> Do we have any other questions on that item? Was it only three different >> We'll go ahead and move
045on to item 6F. Consider and take possible action on purchasing of Chromebooks and laptops. >> Thank you, Miss GarcA. So, you do see an initiative to purchase over 1,400 Chromebooks. This is for our kiddos uh funded through lasso grant emat and the interactive online grant. And then you do see a line item for 28,000 for teacher time study. This are laptops for our new teachers. So all these are grant funded and administration recommends approval of these devices. >> All grant funded. >> It's all grant money. It doesn't impact any of the none of the budget. >> Correct. and there are no other questions. We'll move on to item 7A. Thank you, Dr. Selenas. >> Consider and take possible action on renewal service agreement with Garrett Callahan for water treatment services at Gura High School. Good
046evening, Madame President, members of the board. Miss GarcA, superintendent of schools. Um Garrett Callahan. This is a one-year renewal for our current uh water treatment for the cooling towers at Gurua High School. Gurua High School is the only school that the chillers have that cooling tower system. So, we are asking for that uh renewal. And this has been in place since it was built. Correct. >> Correct, ma'am. Okay. It's been in place for some time. And the water treatment, what it does, it prevents the damage to the equipment that is there, the corrosion, the scale buildup, even the the biological fouling that might form in the tanks. Have the air conditioners been working well at Guria High or does anybody know because I know there are some areas that were that they had complained about.
047Did y'all get them back up to >> Yes, sir. They were working. I believe it was one room um we were made aware and we took care of it right away. >> Good. Very good. If there are no other questions, we'll move on to item 7B. Consider and take possible action on facility services rental agreement with Cintas for custodial cleaning supplies. This again with Cintas, it is uh also a renewal. We have been working with CANAS for many many years and this is just basically for the maintenance of the district-wide cleaning supplies that are utilized. But just to clarify, Miss Pla, I know that we'll approve probably this because it's a nec a necessity for the district. But meantime, I know there's been people out there saying that our custodial uh people don't have cleaners,
048they they don't have clean mops, and we But we know it's not true. We've approved a lot of these uh materials over the summer and the beginning of school year. So, just to clarify, our custodial staff does have the necessary materials to work with. >> That is correct, sir. And as they ask for the supplies, we have a system in place and we fulfill that. >> All right. >> Yes, ma'am. This uh with the Cintas, it's a 5-year rule. >> And we're not calling anybody liars, but they might be just misinformed. Um but we welcome again our custodians to reach out to Mr. Traa, to one of the board members, to Miss Gara. They should follow the chain of command, tell their principal. Their principal should, you know, tell you all if if nothing is
049done, come to Miss Garcia. nothing is done. You know, it'll take maybe a week going through the chain and if nothing gets done, well, we're here also we're we'll take the the the message and if anything is missing or if air conditions aren't working, anything like that, we welcome the community to let us know um so that we can take care of it. >> Absolutely. >> If there are no questions, thank you, Miss Pñena. We'll move on to item A, >> approval of board minutes. Item one, regular board meet uh meeting August 12, 2025. And item two, special board meeting August 25, 2025. We will not be going into executive session. We will move on now to item 10, public comments on all agenda items. Miss Gonzalez, anyone sign it? Thank you, ma'am. And item
05011, closing business. And just uh before we leave, I just want to remind everyone that se September is childhood cancer awareness month. Uh we wear gold on Wednesdays to show our support. And in the month of September, we also have suicide prevention awareness month. We will wear purple or teal on Tuesdays to show our support. Principles and everyone here, thank you so much for being here. Y'all have a good night. Just to clarify, I won't be present on Tuesday for our for our schoolboard meeting. I will be out of town uh personal trip. So, uh it's not that I'm not here because I I fought with somebody or this disagreement with anybody. I'm here because Miss P and I are taking a vacation. You all, sir, well deserved. Thank you, Mr. Thank you, sir. Y'all
051have a good evening, everybody. Thank you. We're in a road.