001I now call this special board meeting of the real Grande City Guya ISD um to order. The time is 6:30 p.m. And this meeting was properly posted on August 21st, 2025 at 4 p.m. We will begin with roll call. Uh Veronica Barrera present. Mr. Pñena Pñena, >> Mr. Eduardo Ramirez, >> present. >> Mr. Noi Castillo absent. Miss Paty Garcia >> present. >> Mr. Jesse Solis >> present. >> Mr. Vasilo Diael Jr. absent and Miss Guadalupe Garcia present. >> Thank you. We now move on to section three invocation led by Mr. Pña. >> Let's go ahead and bow our heads. Dearly Father and Lord, tonight we just want to thank you, Father. We're going to we're going to give you all the honor and glory for uh being able to give us the wisdom uh the
002knowledge to be able to move this district forward. Father, we we ask you to open our minds, open our hearts, and be able to come up with decisions, Father, that are going to move again our district forward. Once again, we thank you for the people that are here tonight that you take care of them, provide for them, their families, and take them home safe. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. >> Thank you. Now, the pledge of allegiance led by Mr. Eddie Ramirez. 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. >> Thank you. Do we have any public comments? Anybody signed up? Miss Gonzalez. >> Thank you. We continue to section six, action
003items A through E. Item 6A, consider and take possible action on budget amendment 2026 uh-1. [Music] This is budget amendment 20 2026-1 and this amendment is prepared to revise the current budget. Revisions of expenditures and revenues are presented for your review and approval. All right. Can I have a motion? So move. >> Go ahead and second. >> Any questions? If not, all those in favor raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item 6B, discussion and possible action to adopt tax year 2025 maintenance and operations and debt service tax rate. Following the requirements of the Texas Education Code section 44.004, a notice of public meeting to discuss budget or proposed tax rate was published. A public meeting was held and the proposed 2526 budget was adopted. A resolution to adopt a tax rate for 2025 is
004attached. The tax rate to be adopted has two separate components, one for maintenance and operations and one for debt service. The administration recommends the adoption of a tax rate of 7807 cents for maintenance and operations and a tax rate of 5347 for interest in syncing or debt service. The total tax rate for 2025 would be in the amount of a dollar with 3154 per $100 valuation. >> Thank you. All right. Can I have a motion to approve item 6P as presented? >> So move >> and a second. Second. Mr. Jesse. Any further questions, discussions? If not, all those in favor raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item 6C, consider and take possible action on requisitions 5,000 and over. >> Administration is requesting the approval of these requisitions and the detailed requisitions are also attached
005for your review. >> I think it's important to note that we the purchased five 77 passenger school bus. >> Yes. with school buses. >> School buses. Five school buses. >> That's always a good thing. >> Uh with that being said, Madam President, I so move. >> I have I have a quick question. Uh Mari, if uh we can ask some questions on Gurya Middle School uh air conditioning system. Uh Gura Heisen air conditioning system. I see some train >> chillers. >> Uh we have uh >> chiller repairs. ch children chillers that are being replaced. Can you tell us a little bit about the situation at both campuses, Marine, where we're at today? >> Madame President, members of the board, Miss Garca, superintendent of schools, uh, in regards to Guya Middle School, we do not have
006any issues with HVAC. The issue that we were having there last week uh, had to do with the, uh, with Gerlock. Uh we had some drainage issues and uh my maintenance department reported back to me that that was something on their end having to do with gerlock. So they were out there Friday evening and they were working on on that issue. Um and >> Martin to clarify our employees have fabuloso Clorox mops and everything that they need to clean up right because I somebody sent me a message about September 1st us having equipment and I called Miss Gara and she said that's a lie. Our custodians our maintenance has everything they need to clean up if there's any mess or they need correct >> exactly drainage issues. our custodial staff, our maintenance staff, everything that
007they ask for they they get. >> So, we have more than enough supplies to to pass out. >> Okay. Thank you. >> And uh Mr. Pñena, so so that was basically the the issue uh there at Guya Middle School. Uh I was out there with the principal. I have to give uh Miss Rios a lot of credit. Again, they never panicked. They never uh you know everything was business as usual. Uh students you know we walked the hallways everybody was was doing well. Again it is it was a concern but it was something on Gerlock's end and uh they they are working on it. Uh now Guruya High School we did get some some calls that there was having issues with HVAC there. Uh again, never I never received a call from Guya High School
008from anybody in regards to HVAC. So I went out there myself Friday and I walked the campus. The principal was not in uh that day, but I did speak to Miss Ayala and Mr. Aia that were assigned there from the start of the school year. So, both of them told me that they've walked the hallways, they've talked to teachers, and that no classrooms had issues with uh uh with any room being hot. As a matter of fact, they said that their issue there is some of the classrooms are a little on the cold side. Now, so I left and I came back and reported to Miss GarcA that everything was good. Now, she did get two calls later that day uh stating that at the Kate uh building there were two classrooms that were a
009little bit on the warm side. So, we took care of that right there. And then I sent my HVAC department out there and they dealt with that situation. And if you all don't understand, uh the the chiller system at Gria High School uh on Thursday, I think it was on Thursday, unfortunately, the water uh service uh they had a water leak somewhere in the Garciaville laita area and uh they had to shut the water services. So guess what? If the water services are shut down, your your your chillers shut down because they run on water. So that was a reason we were having issues. Not because the air conditioners are bad, not because of anything, but because we were lacking water services in order for our our units to to to provide the the temperatures
010that we needed. Am I correct on that or or am I correct? >> You you are right on. And uh again, I don't want to mention these two parents' names, but we're very very grateful for two parents that came from the community of Lagua and spoke to uh Miss Garson, myself. And again, uh they had a lot of questions for us. We answered every question. I guess what they were hearing was way off. They were I guess basing things of what they were seeing on social media. They came and talked to us. Uh you know again those two parents and you know from what we can tell they left very satisfied because again we had an answer for pretty much every question they had. So you are right on. We uh we had uh no
011water for about an hour and a half. Again, that issue happened uh with Union Water. I called the manager at Union Water and he said that they were working on it. As soon as I hung up with him, I reached out to the principles. Within 20 minutes, the water was back on. So, we do have procedures in place. when a campus does not have water, we didn't have to get to that point because again within 15 20 minutes the water was back on from the time that we found out. >> All right. >> And so thank you. Um and so from a board's perspective, I want to thank those two parents that actually came out. I think it's very important that we see as a community what's going on. When a parent wants to fix
012a situation, they're more than welcome to call the superintendent's office to message one of us directly. I did have some people messaging me telling me, "Veronica, they're telling me to share this. I don't want to share it. I don't know if it's true. You know, can you let me know?" And I directed her to Miss Miss Gara. And I thank them. And I appreciate those parents that take the time to first learn and and really uh try to constructive criticism. Things happen. They might mess up. Air conditions will mess up. That's okay. We understand it. But let's try to be proactive and and have a constructive criticism towards us, the board and Miss Gara because other things that that happen and there's no way that we're going to find out or fix it through social
013media. I think it's important that they know as a parent the phone number of Miss Gara's um office and that they uh I know like I said anybody is welcome to message me. I know everybody that's messaged me knows that I will 99% of the time get back to you. And um I thank those parents that did it that way. And um another thing, I haven't gotten any messages or I didn't get any messages in the past two weeks that air conditions weren't working. I usually would get a lot of complaints from different people. And I think I'm very open and I think I'm very welcoming to criticism and I haven't gotten it. I haven't gotten any custodians like before telling me that there wasn't supplies. And so it surprises me now that I hear
014it because before I was hearing it all the time and also their conditions. So um I welcome parents message me, message Mr. Pñena. I don't know if they're willing to take their messages, right? But u for sure I can say speak to for myself that I will take any messages through Facebook. People know where I work. Um you can call, leave a message. My secretary gives me messages all the time uh from people in the community and we will address it. Um but yeah, I just want to thank those parents that that that work that way >> and and again a message to to the community and parents, they need to trust that our principles do not hesitate. >> Do not hesitate. They will call me, they will call the soup, they will call Miss
015Pena, they will call Dr. Salenas. Again, any issue that they have at their campus, they will be on us. So again, uh you know, we find out everything going on at the campuses directly from the principles. Do not hesitate to call us. >> One thing to clarify, you might be asking yourself, well, why did we have air conditioning issues at Gurria High and not at Gura Middle. What we did at Gurria High, there's a chiller system that one runs on a water system. At Gurria Middle was a new middle school. What we did, we did the wall-mounted air conditioning independent units. So those if one breaks down, you move to another classroom and you're fine. at Gria High if the water chiller if there's no water service it affects the whole campus. So that's just
016the difference why we had issues at Gria High and not at Gura Middle at the same time. >> Thank you. >> Do I have a motion to approve item 60 as presented? >> I already made the motion. I think it was just a second that was lacking. >> Second, Mr. Gene. All those in favor raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item 60, discussion and possible action to ratify letter of support for real Grandandy City Economic Development Corporation's Paul Brun historic revitalization subgrant program proposal. Real Grandandy City preservative preservation fund. >> Madam President, if I may, I move that we approve item 6D and E as a yeah that we move to approve item six. >> All right. Yes. Present. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Mr. Feet and some discussion. Do
017we have anybody to discuss on this? Well, I I I think I know a little bit about it, so I can clarify. Um, this is a grant that the city is asking for to uh help preserve the fort. And so, that's something very, very good. We're not doing this grant because our our business is uh student uh students, academics, but um we're only letting that those people with a grant know that we're in favor and we're uh accepting that assistance if they give them that grant to the city. So, the city is working to obtain a grant to fix our Fort Wringled buildings. >> And I guess on item 6E, I can mention just a little bit of a of a background on what it is. South Texas School Board Association is going to be
018made up of board members that are from here from the real Grandandy Valley. It's a it's a it's a board that will go and advocate for the districts within the real Grandandy Valley because right now we're only part of TASB. Casby looks at it Texas wide and they advocate for everybody and they think everybody has the same needs. Well, what they came up with is the Texas associ the South Texas School Board Association will focus on issues that our kids here in the real Grandandy Valley need and they will go advocate for those needs. So that's what that board is being created for and Miss Paty Garcia would be a member of that board. >> And let me add that it's 77 cents per 88. So I think it's 7,000 7,000 less. >> If no
019further discussions or questions, all those in favor raise your right hand. >> And motion passes. We will now move on to section seven, executive sessions for items A through B as listed on the posted agenda under Texas Government Code sections 551071-76 and 551082 through84. The time is now 6:45 p.m. and we're now moving to executive session. >> Congratulations. Thank you guys for attending. >> Okay, we're ready. All right, the time is now 7:20 p.m. and we are back in open session. May I have a motion for each of the following? Item A, consider and take possible action to approve a mutual reassignment and release agreement with employee JG and authorize the superintendent to execute the agreement. >> So move discuss in executive session. >> Second, >> Mr. Jesse. All those in favor, raise your right
020hand and motion passes. Item B, discussion and possible action to propose the suspension without pay of a chapter 21 contract employee OG and authorize the issuance of notice of proposed suspension without pay in accordance with chapter 21 of the Texas Education Code. >> Madam President, before um anyone calls a vote, I due to some prior legal representations of this individual that are totally unrelated to this matter, I must or I'm required to abstain. And I want the minister to reflect that I was not part of the meeting in executive when this issue was when this item was discussed. >> All right. Do I have a motion? >> So move. >> And do I have a second? >> Second. >> Miss Paty, all those in favor, raise your right hand. And motion passes. >> Madame President,
021members of the board, before we continue, I would like to announce tonight our acting principal for Gura High School will be Miss Stelma Martinez. Congratulations, ma'am. >> Congratulations. [Applause] And our acting principal for Gurua Elementary, I'm sorry, will be Mr. Ramro Bera. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> All right. Congratulations to both of you. >> The Friday. >> All right. Can we go ahead? >> It's the public. >> Okay. Oh >> yeah. >> Okay. So, Miss Gonzalez, do we have any public comments on non-aggenda items? >> None. Thank you. And now item B, adjournment. Being that there are no further items left on the agenda, I now declare this meeting adjourned at 7:22 p.m. Thank you and have a great evening. >> Hold on. >> Just a very quick announcement. Yes, congratulations. I know
022it's okay. Go ahead. Just want to say uh that you know we do have our uh uh Rattlers playing this Friday against Roma and we also have our Gators going out this Thursday as well playing against the Brownsville Porters and a bunch of other sports activities that we have going on already. Go out there and support our students. So once again, thank you and congratulations. >> Thank you all.