001Good afternoon. It is 6:13 and I call this special board meeting um to order. It is Tuesday, April 29, 2025. And I said 6:13 p.m. at the multi-purpose center. Um roll call. Veronica Barera, president, present. Mr. Renee Pñena, vice president. Present. Mr. Eduardo Eddie Ramirez, secretary. Um he's absent. He had a medical procedure appointment um that he was not able to come. Mr. Noi Castillo absent. Miss Paty Garcia present. Mr. Jesus Solis present. Mr. Basido Variel absent. And Miss Wup Gara present. Invocation. Will we all rise for a short prayer? Dear and father Lord we really thank you for having us here tonight. Father we ask your guidance, your direction. Father, that you clear the path for us, Father, to be able to make decisions that will bring this district forward, Father, and that we
002be successful in all we do for the children's sake. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. And the pledge of allegiance by Mr. Jesse. 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. Do we have any public comments at this time? So, we don't have public comments. We will move on to action item A. Consider and action and take possible action approving the use of unspent general obligation bond proceeds authorized for a specific purpose on propositions B and E of an election held on May 1st 2021st for another purpose is allowed by education code chapter 45 section 45 uh1015. Madame President, I call Mr. Rick Fettis, our bond council to um speak of
003this item, please. Good afternoon, Madam President, members of the board. Uh, again, my name is Ricardo Perez, and I want to thank you for allowing me and my firm to serve as counsel for the uh, school district. Before you is an item where you've got two different propositions, which is proposition B and Proposition E. Uh, Proposition B was money that was elected for the creation of an auditorium and Proposition E amongst other things was for a wrestling complex. I guess at this time the school district has brought it to our attention that they've abandoned those projects and want to repurpose those funds to some other stuff for the school district. I think they want to build some pavilions, uh, some HVAC, um, at the middle school, some intercoms, and possibly re uh, furbishing or rebuilding
004two gyms for, uh, make them into wrestling complexes. All right. Do we have any questions or discussion? Do you want to add anything, Miss Garza? Uh, yes, Madam Pres president. I do want to add though that as Mr. uh Perez has mentioned right now that we do want to repurpose those monies uh as he said for HVAC safety buses. However, um of course that plan has not been finalized. Once we do uh you know uh work on that plan together with my administration, we will be presenting it to board. Perfect. Very good. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Pettis. Just a clarification, is this is allowable uh to move these monies as long as we have uh the proper uh documentation in place. Is that correct? That's correct. Okay. Thank you. There is I was telling
005uh Dr. Growzer right now there's some legislation there's some proposed legislation before the legislators right now where they're trying to repeal this whole statute. So if that were to pass, it doesn't go till effect till September 1st. So you're going to do it, you got to do it now. Okay. And just for clarification for the for the community. Yes sir. Thank you. And also to clarify like Mr. D is saying um we had a town hall meeting for this purpose to inform people to hear um any voices out there um comments concerns of the community regarding this. Um and so again we had that we all you know have agreed that the monies need to be used in in in something you know like we've said we the HVACs the intercom safety different things that
006we mentioned a little bit more in detail in that town hall meeting and so everybody it's available online if anybody wants to see that town hall meeting where we said a little bit spoke a little bit more about this um but um yeah so sadly we're not going to be able to build those nudators um we had already gone down to building only one and that was going to be a problem too because then we were going to leave Lagria without one and so at this time we're deciding or we're going to vote uh on repurposing these funds and using them in what we need in our schools. Yes. All right. Thank you so much. If we have no further discussion, um do we have a motion? So move, Mr. Pñena and a second. Second,
007Mr. Jesse. All those in favor, raise your right hand. And motion passes. Executive session. Do we have anything? There's no need for executive session tonight, ma'am. All right. So, clo uh closing business or Miss Gara, I just want to advise everyone that we will be having our first board workshop following uh this uh meeting at 6:30 today. Thank you. Thank you. And if there's nothing else to be discussed, this meeting is adjourned at 6:18 p.m.