001Good afternoon everyone. I now call this meeting special meeting of the Rand Gurua ISD school board. The time is 12 p.m. This meeting was properly posted on 23 May 23rd, 2025 at 3:45 p.m. We'll begin with roll call. Uh Veronica Barera, present. Mr. Renee Pñena, vice president. Present. Mr. Eduardo Eddie Ramirez, secretary. I believe he had a personal issue something with her his daughter. Um so he he apologized for not being here today. Mr. Noi Castillo member absent. Miss Paty Garcia present. Mr. Jesse Solis present. And Mr. Vasilio Variel Jun present. Miss Guadalupe Gara present. Thank you. We will now move on to section three invocation led by Mr. Pñena. Go ahead and pray. Dearly Father, Lord, we thank you for having us here today. Father, thank you for uh giving us a time out
002of our day to come and uh uh make an effort, Father, to uh improve our our school district, Father, in a way that uh has never been impacted before. Father, we ask you that you bless us, you guide us, Father. Thank you for the guidance that you've given up to this point uh to move this district forward. Father, we ask once again for you to guide us throughout this meeting. Give us the words of wisdom, Father, to be able to make decisions that honor your name. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Mr. Pñena. Uh, Mr. Jesse, can you lead us in the pledge of allegiance? 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
003and justice for all. Thank you. We can all sit public comments. Miss Becky, thank you. Section six. Uh we will now move on to section six, executive session for items A through D as listed on the posted agenda under Texas government code sections 50 551071-76 and 551.082 through 84. The time is now 12:04 p.m. and we will move to executive session. All right, it is the time is now 12:40 p.m. and we're back in uh open session. May I have a motion for the following action? Uh the um following item to approve resignations retirements of existing personnel as discussed in executive session. So move as discussed in executive session. All right, Mr. Eddie, do I have a second? Mr. Sorry. and Mr. Jesse second. All those in favor raise your right hand. And motion passes
004item 7B. 7B. Uh motion to approve superintendent's recommendation concerning administrative personnel as discussed in executive session. Do I have a motion? So move. Mr. Ray and a second. Second, Miss Py. All those in favor, raise your right hand. Mr. President, Miss Mr. President, at this time I'm going to abstain. I I agree with a lot of the choices, but I'm not in agreement with a few. So, at this time, I'm abstaining from this. Abstain, Mr. Basil will abstain. Mr. Rene. Yeah. So, it's 1, two, three, four. In favor? Motion passes. Item 7 C. Okay. A motion to authorize superintendent intendant to finalize and execute the final settlement agreement subject to legal approval as discussed in exe executive session. So move to execute for superintendent to execute and finalize as uh discussed in executive session. So
005do I have a second? Second. Miss Py all those in favor raise your right hand and motion passes. At this time, Miss Lupita Gara, she can go ahead and tell us her recommendations for the personnel. Madame President and u all that are here uh this afternoon. First and foremost, I would like to congratulate all applicants uh that came in and interviewed for all the positions that we had available. Um you all did very well and it was a tough decision to make uh the following recommendations, but I will call them out at this time. Chief of Student and Family Engagement, Idani Selenas. Chief of Maintenance, Operations, and Infrastructure, Marin Lopez. Director of Academics and School Leadership, Brenda Carmona. Director of Athletics and Physical Education, Aron Garcia. Director of Data Quality, Lillian Jones. Director of Maintenance
006Operations and Infrastructure, Marisa Pena, Director of Restorative Discipline and Attendance, Julio Agia, Director of School Improvement, Jesse Rodriguez. Director of Special Services, Miguel Guerrero, Coordinator of Career and Technology, Martha Vera, Accounting Supervisor, Gry Santo Guerra. Those are all congratulations to each and every one of you. Thank you. [Applause] Do we have public comments, Miss Becky? No. With this in mind, Madam President, I would just like to share that at this time, you know, I want to congratulate each of the of the candidates that applied for these positions. As you all can see, uh, on this board that we're sitting is an opportunity for all employees to get that courage to apply. Uh, it's fair practice that we're trying to put into place. So, I encourage individuals, youngsters that are that are that are new at
007the campuses to, you know, look out and always give your best because uh you know, you never know when your name will come up and uh surprise uh you're called up to step up to the plate and uh be ready for it because uh right now uh that's what it is. That's what it is. uh we took you the superintendent uh made it a point to take those names into consideration and for some of us uh we might be surprised for others we might not but there is always that opportunity for you to grow and give others at the campus level the opportunity to grow at the same time. So congratulations and be ready for a lot of work in the upcoming year. Congratulations to everybody. Congratulations. All right, the time is 12:44 and this
008meeting is now adjourned.