001Good evening everyone. I now call this meeting to order. It's a regular board meeting of the real Grande City Guru ISD School Board. The time is 6:30 p.m. This meeting was properly posted on March 21st, 2025 at 4:20 p.m. We will begin with roll call. Dr. Veronica Barera, president. Present. Mr. Renee Pñena, vice president. Present. Mr. Eduardo Edi Ramirez, secretary. Present. Mr. Noi Castillo absent. Miss Paty Garcia present. Mr. Jesse Solis present. Mr. Vasilio Varria Jr. absent. And Miss Guadalupe GarcA superintendent present. Thank you. We will now move on to section three invocation. Will Mr. Pñena lead us in prayer? Let's go ahead and bow our heads dearly. Father Lord, we thank you, Father, for having us here today. Father, we thank you, Father, because uh you bring us together as an RGCISD family, Father,
002to work for the betterment of our children. Uh we ask for guidance, ask for direction as we take uh make decisions, Father, uh for the betterment of our community, for the betterment of our schools. Uh we ask all these things in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Amen. Thank you. And Mr. Eddie Ramirez, with the pledge of allegiance, please. 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, Miss Ibara. Do we have anybody signed up for public comments? Thank you. We move on to section six, approval of minutes for public hearing February 11, 2025. Regular board meeting February 11, 2025. and special board meeting February 25, 2025. Does any board member have any
003corrections or changes to the minutes? All right. At this time, could I have a motion to approve the meeting minutes for all three meetings? So move, Mr. Pñena. And can I have a second? Second, Mr. Gar Jesse. Any discussion? All those in favor, please raise your right hand. And um motion passes. Section seven, superintendent reports. We will now hear any from any reports. Do we have any, Miss Gara? Uh, right now, ma'am, we will have staff highlights and that's going to be presented by PR department. Thank you. Good evening, Madam President. Good evening, Miss Gara, esteemed members of our board. We are very proud to show you our highlights for this past month and this month currently. You know, there's so many highlights, it's hard to fit them into one video. We also focused on
004uh on uh the Early Childhood Academy, and we have three of our celebrities here today. They're going to appear in the video that you're about to see. We're actually going to turn it into a commercial. We have the teacher, our parent, and the the student who appeared in the video. So, hopefully you all like it. Thank you all. Thank you. February was fantastic and March is already shaping up to be just as amazing. The RGCG ISD All-Star Battle of the Books team participated in the 2025 Region 1 Battle of the Books competition hosted by Region 1 Library Services. Thank you to our students and Miss Rosario Osuna for proudly representing RGCGSD at the Battle of the Books High School Division. Congratulations to Gria High School's mariachi Gurua de Plata for earning first place and Rio
005City High School Mariachi's Kascave for earning second place at the 2025 mariachi extravaganza in Las Vegas. The US Army Reserve Center has officially been transferred to Rio Ganda City Guya ISD at zero cost to the district. The building will now serve as a RGCGSD police department providing a valuable resource for campus safety and security. The RGCGISD migrant education department held a successful fundraiser to support local migrant scholarships. Thank you to everybody who contributed to this cause and helped make a difference in the lives of our migrant seniors. Now in our campus highlights, we are proud to showcase our early childhood academy where young learners receive a high quality education through hands-on experiences, bilingual learning and more. Congratulations to all our students and staff for their hard work and achievements. This has been Kay and from
006Dr. Mario E. Rome [Music] Elementary Rodriguez. I like learning English and Spanish. [Music] giving children a bilingual education sets them up for success and beyond. Come with me and early childhood of [Music] academy. Very good. I know. I know they're here. I saw them. Can you stand up for uh where's Cara? There she is. Cara from Early Childhood Academy has always been very helpful to us. And thank you very much, Mr. Alundo for participating in that video. Thank you all very much. Thank you very much. And congratulations to all our mariachi students and their parents and their teachers. They did awesome. Um, how about the item B, intruder detection? That would be an executive or it'll be executive. Okay. So, we move on uh for safety purposes to executive. Section 8, items A, B, and
007C, consent agenda. There are three items under the consent agenda. Do any board members wish to pull any of these items for separate discussion? Nope. If not, may I have a motion to approve all consent agenda items? So, move. Second. Second, Paty. Any discussion? All those in favor, raise your right hand. And uh a motion passes. Next, we have section nine, finance item A, finance reports. Report on tax collections for the month of February 2025. Mrs. Robles. Good evening. Good evening. Um, attached you will find the tax collections report for the month of February 2025. The district collections in M and INS total 2,33,8766 cents for current and $124,740.33 cents for delinquent and $143,935.71 for penalty and interest. Other collections total $70,61.94. So we had a grand total of tax revenues coming in at 2,372,61464.
008Thank you. Item A2, report on budget balances for the month of February 2025. Mrs. Roles, if you don't mind, you can stay up there for the next two items. Thank you. For the Shell Nutrition Program, we had total revenues of 6,251,961, total expenditures of $7,614, $614,694. And right now we do have a net a net net change in fund balance of negative1,362,732. For the general fund, we had total revenues for 70,790,373, total expenditures of 61,330,387, and other resources of 2,687,910. And right now we have a net change in fund balance of 12,147,896. For the debt service fund, we had total revenues of 10,645,292. Total expenditures 8,838,68. And right now our net change in fund balance is1,86,684. For the next item, the check register. The check registers are presented as a report item on a monthly
009basis for the school board's review. Any questions that cannot be addressed at the meeting regarding any check will be researched and the answer will be provided to the school board at the meeting or at the next board meeting. If there are any questions, any questions? Thank you. Those are all the items we have for finance reports. Thank you. Thank you. Item 9B, consider and take possible action on change order uh 029 from Guro Builders LLC for Guruya Middle School. Miss GarcA, Mr. Fabiano Cho. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen of the board. Madam superintendent on uh change order number 29 that is for the um mobile service for the fire alarm system uh there at the school. Uh there is no telephone or analog line going into the school at the at the moment which is
010needed for the fire alarm. Uh we are ready to uh be turning in your cafeteria and your fine arts building uh for the school approval. Once that's approved, you will require to have uh the system on to have it monitored by a fire alarm system. Uh after that, we're going to have the rest of the buildings coming in within the next two to three weeks uh for approval also. So, uh, this system is not only just temporary. Uh, the system can be used permanently. So, you don't have to worry about any analog lines coming into the building. You just continue paying on a monthly basis to the provider and they'll take care of the rest. All right. Thank you. Can I have a motion to approve item 9B? So, move. Can I have a second?
011Second, Mr. Jesse. Any discussion? All those in favor, raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item 9 C. Consider and take possible action on change order 030 from Gerlock Builders LLC for Gria Middle School. And we have you up there for 9C. That's on that one. Change order 030. Um there is power shown on the drawings for the gate motors for the front entry. Uh but you do have a double gate system on each entry. So you only have power for one motor. So you'll be only able to open up one door. The change order is to provide power uh from where we end up uh leaving just the the uh original system right now which is at the gate first gate. We're crossing over the street over to the second motor. That's where the
012change order comes in just to provide power for that portion. Are these are these the actual gates that you're talking about on on this change order, sir, or is it the wiring the the This is just conduit wiring uh new circuit uh that is required for for that. Okay. Cuz the way it reads here, it says power for the the power for the two gate motors. That would be for the east and the and the west side gates. Yes. Yeah. It'll be for both. You got two separate gates. One that's on the east side, one that's on the west side. So on each one you have a double gate, but you have double motors. So yes, it's for both sides to uh make them operable. And that would be for conduit uh and also for
013material which is all the wiring that we need to send over from the school over to the uh to those areas to do this concrete work the voltage and is that needed includes this includes I know that that this on this change order includes uh uh concrete work uh low voltage wiring and controls and overtime and it's included in this excluded or excluded in this project. Uh uh does it other is already covered in the in the cost or is it going to be additional cost on on this particular work quarter? On on this one here is additional cost what we had before prior. And so we're going to need another change order later in the future. So we have enough we have power for two motors only. Okay. Which is one shown on one
014on each on the east and one on the west. Yeah. Well, that we understand what I what we want to what we want to clarify is on the description the included on the top part it includes the the control conduit, the motorized gate control uh the controls uh drawing for conduit roof and reference and the trenching but then in the exclusions it says all overtime costs uh all concrete work and all low voltage wiring and contract. Is that additional is it going to be additional cost with that exclusion to the project? has some control wiring that you're talking about in there already and we have to add from one of the motors over crossing over the street. So, it's not like if I'm coming all the way from the school u for that wiring uh
015overtime, I guess it's just verbiage that they put in there uh stating that any overtime that is required in our part to get the job done, it's covered under that price. There will be no extra charges or anything. So basically our question is that is it going to be working and ready to go once we do this this change order? Yes. And it should it's covered. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? I have a question for Mles Mendes. Um on the previous item I saw that the betterment fund balance. It has a certain quantity on this item 9C. Is it covered by the betterment fund balance too or Yes. Do you know what the I copied but I guess I didn't save the part after I pasted. So yes. So after you count
016the the 6,385 for the power gate motors, we're still going to have a few thousand left in the betterment. So we're almost we're almost out, right? Okay. If we can get an exact amount just so we know because I know it's not going to be much left. Thank you. Uh sir, excuse me. Do you know the completion rate? What what's the percentage of the campus completion already of the completion right now? U we brought it back up from where we were at uh around 80%, we've already brought it up to about 95%. 95% completion. Uh right now the only thing we've got uh that we're actually working on is the administration area and finishing up the uh gymnasium area. And you've got uh we've got the painting of the gym floor that we have to
017do. Uh all your air conditioning system is up and running. Uh plumbing uh we got about five 10% more to go on the plumbing work. Other than that, everything else it's uh pretty much above 95%. painting structure everything else is completely done. Can I ask about Have Have you all tested the the water system already there at the campus? The water lines already connected. We got the water meters installed. It's already on. We're turning on waters per building uh so we can make sure there is no leaks. Uh we already have one that we found. Uh but we found uh we found it that same day when they opened up the water. So damages that happened was just a wet ceiling tile. Okay. Other than that uh none of the other two buildings that we
018have already opened water to have created any leaks such as that the one in the uh cafeteria I believe it was. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. Um all right. So do I have a motion to approve item 9 C as presented? So move. Mr. Second. Second, Mr. Jesse. All those in favor, raise your right hand. And motion passes. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Item 9D, consider and take possible action on payment request statement number three from design group International for welding shop at Rio Grande City High School. Madame President, uh this project is already completed. to ad administration request that we do approve this item, the welding shop. All right. Any questions, discussion? All those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion. I'm sorry. It's right here. Um, so a motion. Yeah. So
019move, Mr. Pñena. And do I have a second? Second, Miss Paty. Any discussion? All those in favor, raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item 9E. Consider and take possible action on payment request statement number four from design group international for cosmetology and barber shop at Aurora the city high school. Uh madame president this project is also completed so administration is requesting that we approve this item. Do I have a motion? So move Mr. Pñena in a second. Miss Paty any discussion? All those in favor raise your right hand and motion passes. Item 9F, consider and take possible action on payment request statement number seven from design group international for faculty and student training center at Fort Wringles. Madame present, as well the faculty and the student training center are completed. So we are requesting
020payment at this time or approval for this item. Do I have a motion? So move, Mr. Pñena. And do I have a second? Second, Mr. Jesse. Any discussion or questions? All those in favor raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item 9G, consider and take possible action on payment request statement number seven from Design Group International for Guya Middle School. Madame President, this project is not 100% completed. Therefore, Design Group International is asking for uh 50% of payment at this time and the other 50% will be paid to them upon completion of this project. So, we ask that this item be approved. Do I have a motion to approve item 9G as presented? So, move presented. Mr. Pñena and do I have a second? No second. Mr. Eddie, any discussion? All those in favor, raise
021your right hand. And motion passes. Item 9H. Consider and take possible action on pay application 21 from Gerlock Builders LLC DBA Wilcon for Gurua Middle School. Yes, ma'am. This project is completed. So, we're asking that uh this item be approved. Thank you. Any uh do I have a motion to approve item 9H? So move, Mr. Pñena. And can I have a second? Second. Miss Paty, any discussion? Take your time. I think I was rushing you guys a little bit, but discussion questions. No, you're only paying 50% right now. And or this is completed already. This is completed. Yes, sir. Yeah. All those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion passes. Item 9 I consider and take possible action on pay application number 14 from NM Contracting LLC for cosmetology and barber shop at Rio Grande
022High School. Madam President, as mentioned earlier, this uh project has been completed. So administration is asking for approval of this item. Do I have a motion to approve item 9? I move was presented. Mr. Pñena and can I have a second? Second. Mr. Jesse, any discussion or questions? No. All those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion passes. Item 9J, consider and take possible action on pay application number 17, R from NM Contracting LLC for welding shop at Rand City High School. Madame President, uh this uh project has been completed. So, administration is asking that we approve this item. Do I have a motion for this uh item 9J? Yes. So move as presented. Mr. Fña, can I have a second? Second. Miss Py, any discussion, questions? It's uh what's the completion? Did you say
023completed? Completed. Complete. Yes, ma'am. 100%. Okay. All those in favor, raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item 9K, consider and take possible action on pay application number 20 RE from NM Contracting LLC for faculty and student training center at Ford Ringles. Madame President, as well this project has been completed. So we request that this item be approved. Thank you. Do I have a motion? So move. Mr. Pñena, can I have a second? Miss Paty, and any questions or discussion? Does it include the generator for the is this the student center? I am happy to announce that the generator is up and running. Yes, sir. It includes that. Good. All those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion passes. Item 9L. Consider and take possible action on request for additional state aid for add valorum
024tax uh tax to the Texas education agency for tax credits granted by Rio Grande City Guya ISD under chapter 313 value limitation agreements. Mrs. Robless. A request for additional state aid for Valerin tax needs to be submitted to the Texas Education Agency to receive additional state aid for the school district for the value limitation agreement with Los Vento's Winder Wind Power 3 LLC. Los Vento's Wind Power 4 LLC and Los Ventos Wind Power 5 LLC. The amount of the state aid or tax credit issued for 2024 tax year is $646,96546 under a resolution approved by the RGC GISD board of trustees on October 9th, 2018. RGC GISD will be reimbursed that same amount by the Texas Education Agency for the tax credit issued to Los Viento's wind power projects in tax year 2024. Administration recommends
025the approval of this request. So then is it's just a simple request like I know it's to get reimbured for the tax credit that uh Los Ventos got but as long as we submit the request then we'll get reimbured that within and we have been receiving them every single year since we've been issuing this tax credit. How long how long after we submit the request since well we have until May to submit this request so that we can get reimbursed. Got it. Thank you. Do I have a motion to approve item 9 now as presented? So move. Mr. Eddie, can I have a second? Second, Mr. Renee, any uh questions or discussion? All those in favor, raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item 9M, consider and take possible action on budget amendment 20255. Mrs.
026Robless, and I'll ask that you please stay up there till item uh P, please. Thank you. Attached you will find budget amendment 2025-5 and this amendment is prepared to revise the current budget revisions to expenditures and or revenues and are presented for your review and approval. Are there any questions? The revenue protection payments would Yes. So this is uh the supplement payments that we get from the solar projects that we have the windmills and so we had budgeted for 1.2 million and we received more than that so we are adjusting the revenues to reflect that 1.4 yes and then the other one I think we can't discuss it here because it's a settlement agreement so yeah that was uh approved back in November and we're just revising the the budget. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.
027Do I have a motion to approve item 9M as presented? So move. Mr. Eddie, do I have a second? Mr. Jesse. Any discussion? All those in favor, raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item nine in. Consider and take possible action on bids agreements up for renewal. Good evening, board members or president. Good evening. What do you have uh questions on or We had a couple mixing. And if I may, on the item 9, which is a list of the bids and agreements sub for renewal, I do have if if y'all let me. Um, we did another I'm sorry to interrupt. Can you get a little bit closer because I'm having a hard time listening. Yeah, hearing you all. Can you hear me now? Yes. Thank you. Okay. So, in reference to item 9n, the
028list of bids/aggreements up for renewal, we do have or I have um an agreement that I added. You all do have it in the packet, but I wanted to see if I could uh give you an updated one, if that's okay with with you all. And this is including all 17 that are on the list. Uh I've got 17. We have 17 and I just added one. One more. So there's one. Is there supple Is there a supplemental list? Excuse me. It's not That one's not on here. No, it's not on It's not on there. Okay. So that's why I'm asking if I may. If not, I mean it's okay. We'll bring it for the next one. Go ahead and bring it to us. That's got I know here uh it states that it's up
029for renewal for the extensions and or to be bid out for the remainder of the school year and new school year. So we're including the remainder of this school year and the following. So pretty much how it works and I'll go ahead and explain the ones that we have on top like the bank depository services. It is up for renewal which is for two years. Now it's up to you all if you all want us to renew. Of course we would have to bring that back to renew it. But if y'all don't want us to renew, then of course we'd have to go out and bid it. So that's what this list entails. And then if I go down the line like let's say the RFQ on call engineering and material testing and architect that's
030the same thing. We have the option to renew for an additional two years or we can go ahead and bid it out. So that's where we're bringing the list of bids that we have that we can either extend or we can go out and bid. So that we're bringing it to you all so you all can let us know what route you'all want us to take. For for number two, has it been the same company for some time already or no? To for for which one? for number for RF RFQ the on call the on call engineering materials and testing and architecture we have multiple um architects and engineers that are qualified for it so we have a list of vendors and based off of that we choose who we go with based off of
031their qualifications Mr. Uh I I don't know if this is something that we can look at more detail in executive. I It seems like Yes, there's 18 different I mean I was just the superintendent that this should be included in y'all's board packet so y'all can review these before the meeting and not on the spot. So we can take it into executive cur Yeah. And I I do want to mention well it is in the packet it's just we're adding one. That was it. So uh we got to make a motion to add a fragrance to it. Um we can take a motion taken to executive session. So, Madam President, my my motion with regards to item what is it? N N 9n is to move it into executive session. Do I have a second
032for that motion to move to executive session? Item 9. And we have a second by Paty. All those in favor, raise your right hand. And motion passes. You got it, Miss Becky. Okay. Item 9, consider and take possible action on requisitions 5,000 and over. And on that more than a question, I just wanted to point out that we are spending I can see the amount right across. Yeah, we're spending a little over $130,000 for Guya High School and Middle School football and cross country. Correct, Mr. Cleanto? for BSN the department. And so I just want the community to know that we are um approving, you know, items for to go back for our kids for the GUA um high school and middle school. And so that's that's a good thing. We we're we're happy to
033do that. And the other thing which was a big expense is we're taking care of some um Miss Garca, the that building that we had falling apart, that was a safety hazard for the Ford Wringles. Yes, Madame President. Uh we do have a building that is located right now. I want to say in front of where we have the transportation uh department. Uh that building uh needs to be demolished and not only does it need to be demolished, but it also needs to be abated. Uh the roof of course you know has this bestos and because of that we need to be very cautious in the way we demolish that and because of that we are going to look at I'm thinking about it's about a 52,000 somewhere around 52 60,000 okay yeah that's how
034much we're going to incur uh with that building that needs to be demolished for safety uh reasons and any other Chris I have one one question because only because the total amount is pretty high it's requisition number uh 378410 10. That's Lime Bargain. Um I guess they're being paid 133,000 and change, but it's because I guess they they filed an appeal and we recaptured I guess state gain or recapture a certain amount because it's based off of was that the So the idea was that they got a percentage of whatever we recaptured. It's based off of the linquent taxes, but yes, they get a fee that they get paid for. Oh, m sorry because the tickets uh this requisition uh every single year uh as you all know we do have property values uh and
035so the state controller assigns property values uh to the school district and so basically linear appeal to those values because our local values are below that. Correct. And so that amount there is a percentage of what increased in our revenues. It was 10%. Yes. Yeah. Okay. I just thought it was weird that it was actually exactly 10%. 10%. So it's a it's a good thing. Yes. I want to explain that a good pay the bill the bill is high but of course it's the value that we recovered is a 1 some 1.3 million. Correct. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Do I have a motion to approve item 9 as presented? So move, Mr. Pñena. And do I have a second? Second, Mr. Eddie. Um, any discussion? Thank you, Mr. Cento. Uh, all those in
036favor, raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item 9P, consider and take possible action on awarding the following bids. RFP 2520 concrete. RFP 2521 janitorial supplies. RFP 2522, building maintenance supplies and construction materials. RFP 2524, surveillance equipment installation, repair catalog bid. RFP 2527, -ate 25, funding year 2025. RFP 2528, HVAC, parts and equipment catalog bid. RFP 2530, pest control services districtwide, RFP 2531, apparel, awards, incentives, printing, and related products and services. Do we have any questions? We had questions on uh we noticed on the on the pest control uh okay that I know you had two bids correct for it. And why the big discrepancy between one and the other. So if you look at your packet um based off of what the two companies submitted, we have line items. So the line items are
037based off of square footage. So, if I have a building, let's say of 5,000 square feet to 10,000, vendor A might have submitted for, let's say, $100 versus vendor two might have submitted for $300. And then based off of that, that's where the pricing on the bottom line is substantial and it's a big difference. Have we worked with either company? We've we've worked with one of the companies, the other one is a new company, the expensive one or the less expensive one. Have we worked with? We've worked with the more expensive one or the more expensive one. So that's why my recommendation if you all will is to award both of course we go with the lower one but in case for whatever reason they can't come there's an emergency you know we call the
038the second higher one if you would but of course it's up to you all and we we use them both at the same time is have you been using both at the same time like I said the other vendor has not been a vendor for us it's the first time they've been but one of them has the higher one and so you're telling me that that amount the 4,000 and the 47,000 are for the same product or the same service. They're for same services, but they're for different um like I mentioned for square footage. So So that is pretty much the bottom line. It's not that they're let's say going to charge us that amount at the end of the day. It's just the per square footage. So like I mentioned, vendor A will have
039a certain amount they're charging. Vendor B will have a certain amount. So, of course, we want to go with the lower one, but in this case, I'm recommending that we award both just so that way in case we have an emergency, vendor A, which is the lower one, can come, but we're not stuck having to wait until that vendor can come and services. When you do when we submit uh these bids, when they submit the bids, uh they're not do they have like a criteria where they both have to submit so we can have a comparison on square footage that they're charging both of them instead of having them propose like two different ways. Do you understand what I'm saying? No. Yeah. No, I understand. So, if you scroll down to page, let's say like
040309. Yes. Okay. So, we have those bid line items, which is like the food areas, and it tells us the how much they're going to charge us per site visit, um, how much they're going to charge us per inspection. So, we ask the same thing for all vendors. Of course, they submit their pricing, but like I mentioned, let's say you go to the next page. Okay. Okay. So, towards the bottom, let's say like item number eight, it says provide monthly interior inspection of one square ft up to 4,999 square ft. So, this particular vendor is charging us $85 versus vendor number two is charging us more because that's what they charge. So that's why I'm saying we are having bid like their line item bids. The only thing is that of course one is charging
041more than the other one. So I don't know if that on the supplier notes. Sorry. Sure. No, go ahead. On the supplier notes it says bees, termites, fleas and ticks will be quoted as needed. So that does not include it in this particular one because the one on top says application treatment for pest rodents including it looks like it's already included in there and the very top says bees but the bottom one says supplier notes will be quoted as needed. So does that raise the price if we ask for you know the what what is on there plus bees or whatever. The fees are all here. It's just that's a fee that would be for that particular inspection because it's just for the inspection, not the actual if they come in fumigate, it's just to
042inspect. So that's what the square footage is for. And throughout the bid, it does has a pricing like pricing like I said for square foot. And then if you continue going down the line, then it has let's say on page three. I'm just wondering if the discrepancy between the two is additional service or like between square footage. I mean but they they are I mean we are comparing apples to apples. The only thing is one is submitting a different price. That's I I think there's a lot of questions on this est. Do we have a pest control services from now till the end of the school year or no? That's covering that's covering this year already. Which is Yeah. It's one of the vendors that's on here. But right now we're we're covered till the
043end of the school year. No. No. That's what we So it would just be it would be in a monthtomonth if we don't approve tonight. Executive. Yeah. It's to executive if you want to take if you want to take it to executive. But the way the item was listed is you have them all under one action item, not individual action items. So we can take the whole item in there first if you want to discuss it and then come back and open if you have more more questions. Okay, we can do that. So just take that one and I Well, no, this is take an item to take item P into the way it's listed. Okay. Yeah, I would say everybody agrees. You take them. All right. So then we're going to at this time
044do I have a motion to take item 9P uh to executive session for discussion? I so move that we take item 9P into executive session for further discussion. Mr. Hernand, can I have a second? Second, Miss Paty Garcia. Um all those in favor raise your right hand. And motion passes. Thank you. Thank you, Cresento. We'll continue. Item 10, human resources action items A through C. Dr. Selenus. Good evening, Madame President, members of the board, superintendent schools, Miss Garca. On item on the first item with TASBY local recommended policies, this is TASABY update 124. As you can see, the recommended policies, local policies to change on the legal policies, those update on their own. It's state law statute. So, the recommendations are as listed on the on the agenda. So, I don't know if you have
045any questions on specific policies. I I didn't have any questions. Anybody have any questions? We're good. Not on not eight. No, that's eight, right? That is 108. Eight. uh which is consider and take possible action on Tazby localized update 124 affecting local policies. All right. So then can I have a motion to approve item 10A? I move Mr. Eddie and can I have a second? Second. Mr. Pñena, any discussion? None. All those in favor raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item 10B. Consider and take possible action on 2025 2026 um CAT CHP training and curriculum HB grant. So before you on 10B, you have a funded opportunity at no cost to the district. Obviously, it's a grant opportunity uh for a total of $26,485. You have uh 22,485 for curriculum. This is for instruction
046for the children for PE and $4,000 of professional development. This is a partnership between HB and Catch Global Foundation, uh which is evident based curriculum for for physical education. Um, there's also a three-year digital license that will be awarded to five campuses. So, my question was going to be who how do you choose those five schools? How do we That's a good idea. It's a good cause. I'm thinking they're going to have schools fighting for it. Um, so I don't know. Maybe it's for the superintendent, but something to think about, you know, because it's a grant is covered by HB. Um, so maybe a criteria has to decide how what schools get it. All right. Do I have a motion to approve item 10B as presented? So move with the criteria. So move. Yeah. So
047move, Mr. Pñena. Uh, and can I have a second? Second, Mr. Eddie. Any discussion? And all those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion passes. Item 10 C, consider and take possible action on 2025 2029 CATCH mental health curriculum grant for PE. So, similar to item 10B, members of the board, we have a grant in total of $21,000. Again, no cost to the district for our physical education. Um, again, they're offering four year digital curriculum licenses about,600 each. And, uh, this is addressing mental health and it's district-wide. Districtwide. Yes, sir. Correct. Can I have a motion to approve item 10 C as presented? So movement, Madam President, Mr. Eddie, and can I have a second? Second, Mr. Jesse. Um, any discussion or questions? Anybody? Uh, all those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion passes.
048Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Dr. Salenas. We'll continue with item 11, curriculum and instruction action items A through E. Mrs. Ayala. Good evening, Madame President, members of the board, Mrs. Gara. Good evening. So, item 11 A, consider and take possible action on HQIM innovator training support. Um, on this item, um, are we going to leverage off our innovator grant so that we can transition our teachers and our principles into the new curriculum that we're going to be, um, implementing next year, which is our blue bonnet. Is the idea that the 30 teachers and 10 principles come back and teach the rest of them or does The idea is just transition to start transitioning them so that that way they can get familiarized and then taking it back to the to their campuses so that they
049can start talking about it. We plan to have future ones as well, but right now with this particular grant, we're going to leverage off monies that we have here so that we can bring in these individuals. Okay. That way it gets spread out, right? Mhm. I mean, one good thing I can say about the Blue Bonnet is that once we implement it at the district level, I think we get additional funding for for implementing the Blue Bonnet uh curriculum. So, that's a big plus for our district. That's correct. Now, I mean, it's a it's a good thing. That's that's kind of what I was going with. All right. Thank you. Do I have a motion to approve item 11A as presented? So, move, Mr. D. And can I have a second? I'll second. Mr. Ramirez,
050any discussion? All those in favor, raise your right hand. and motion passes. Item 11B, consider and take possible action on instructional materials adoption STE certification manual. On this item, um it's a compliance with the state. It's a requirement that we have to have uh the board approved our certification manual. Where where's this funding source? The funding source is through EMAT. And like you had said earlier, uh Mr. Pñena that um since we are going through Blue Bonnet, which is one of the state's HQIM recommendations, we will be um funded a little bit more through the EMAT process, $60 more per student just to um engage in the curriculum. It's just to justify the the cost because the cost are but I think Yeah, that's correct. I think that's the way to do it. Can I
051have a motion to approve item 11B as presented? So move, Mr. Renee. And can I have a a second? Second, Mr. Jesse. Any further discussion. All those in favor, raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item 11 C. Consider and take a possible action on recommendation for the adoption of Brisk teaching. So, Brisk teaching is something we're bringing in through the blended learning grant. Um, so basically what it is is an AI tool that gives feedback to our students. Right now, since our students are practicing their writing for their STAR exams, what it does, it uh go ahead, it goes ahead and gives them feedback. So, this is going to give them that opportunity to make their corrections and it's right before star. So, they've already they already started using the the program. So, it's
052to edit their writing. Yes. So, it gives them feedback as to what what they're writing on and then recommendations. Okay. Any questions? Autocorrect or something like that? Like an autocorrect? He's asking. Well, it's not autocorrect. It's actually it'll it'll it's grading it. It'll great. It's it's looking at at what they wrote and it actually what it does as well from Miss Amanita did share with me that what it does it does it will let the teacher know that if it was you know plagiarized if it came directly from chat GBT or you know from any of that so that that way the students whoever is implementing this this is going to give them that feedback and it's all that I know that it's been in practice already and the feedback that Miss Olivaris has gotten
053back has been uh very positive that the teachers love it and the kids are really benefiting from Yes. Okay. Thank you. Can I have a motion to approve item 11 C as presented? So move. Mr. Pan, can I have a second? Second. Mr. Jesse. All those in favor, raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item 11D, consider and take possible action on HQIM internalization sessions for K through 5th teachers. on this item if we're just going to piggy back off of the first item with the innovator trainer. This is so we can include more teachers and we're not only including teachers just so that um you know we're also including our campus principles because it's important that we do transition our teachers alongside with our principles when it comes to the new curriculum. So they'll
054have the opportunities to come in and actually um learn about Blue Bonnet and dig in deep and we're not looking at just principles but also their assistant principles as well. Very good. Do I have a motion to approve item 11D as presented? So move. Miss Jordan, can I have a second? Second, Miss Paty. Any other discussion or questions? All those in favor, raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item 11E, consider and take possible action on region one restorative practices training 3 days. Um, on this one, I'm going to have Mrs. SC present this item. Thank you. Good evening, Madame President, members of the board. Miss Garza, on the restorative practices, these are strategies that we have that we implement for different uh plans that we have. For example, for our little ones that we
055do not send to the alternative center. These are one of these these are the strategies that we're implementing in our elementarymentaries to ensure that students are provided the uh I guess strategies and resources that they need to be able to alter their behavior or make sure that they correct their behavior. Also, we have it in our um uh school behavioral threat assessment. It's part of one of the interventions that if a student is considered at risk for a uh threat assessment, these are one of the interventions. So what we are asking today is for the 3-day training that is required for TEA for educators to be able to implement these strategies. So region one is giving us a proposal to be able to come to us at a cost of 5,000 I think it's 5,100
056as opposed to sending our teachers over there for 300 an individual. And we're looking at getting about 30 campus uh personnel to come in for these trainings. And so this is something that we do every year to be in compliance with teaching. This is this is one of the new strategies or uh yes it's new. So that's why we need to get this training to our teachers uh as soon as possible. It's more the social emotional and behavior. Correct. Yes, it does. It builds beh builds relationships. It's different. It focuses. I did provide you know the different uh strategies that it will implement. So you know what my question is going to be what how do we how the 30 chosen how fairness there is that way everybody gets a fair chance right? We we
057need administration and they will have a team in each campus. We do have our threat assessment teams. We do have uh behavioral teams in our campuses. So the principles will be there's a lot there's a lot going on. There's a lot of great opportunities. I just want everybody have a chance because that you know then you say well I don't know how they will they will turn around and train the team at their campus. So the principles it's we are recommending administrator and a team member to come so they can turn it around to their I would recommend miss to send at least one of your counselors at each campus. Yes. That is one of the team members that will be coming in. One of your counselors. Yes. That's one of the team members that
058will be coming in. I do agree that the price is very reasonable. Yes. Yes. It's it's more cost-effective for them to come to us as as going to them. Thank you. Thank you. Could I have a motion to approve item 11E as presented? So move, Mr. Renee. And can I have a second? I'll second. Mr. Eddie, any other discussion or questions? All those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion passes. Section 12, uh, business operations, facilities action items A through D. Do we have any reports, Madam President? No, ma'am. There's no reports under item A. Thank you. Item 12B. Consider and take possible action on request for use of school facilities from Disco Health Plan to host a get ready for baby program on May 28, 2025, faculty and student testing center. Yes, ma'am. Administration
059uh request that we approve the item as presented. I think I think it's a great cause. I just for legal is there anything that they're required to submit? I don't I wouldn't think so, but for this the baby program. Yeah, we're Yeah, it's in consistent with the word policy. Okay, correct. Got it. And I believe it was free for correct up to 100. It's 50 participants plus one. Okay. Um All right. So, do I have a motion to approve item 12B? That's so move. Mr. Eddie. And do I have a second? Second, Mr. Pñena. All those in favor, raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item 12 C. Consider and take possible action on request for use of school facilities from Kathy Rubio Kelsece uh Bass Museum to host the Miss Freedom Fest beauty pageant
060on June 6, 2025 RGCGISD auditorium. Madame President, uh administration request the approval of this item. Do I have any questions, concerns? Do you have a question? Legal. We're covered on that. Legal, Mr. Lamas. Okay. We're just lending the auditorium. Can I have a motion to approve item 12 C? So move, Mr. Pñena. And can I have a second? Second, Miss Py. Any other questions? All those in favor, raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item 12D, consider and take possible action on office of the governor state truency grant supplemental. Madame President, as uh presented, administration does ask for this item's approval. And this was a grant given to us to send our security guards after school hours to take letters and get the parents informed of Yes, ma'am. Anything having to do with truency or
061attendance, that is that is correct. Um, and any uh time that or overtime that is incurred, it is paid through this grant. All right. It's a it's a request or we got the grant. No, we have the grant. I'm just requesting that we How much was the grant for? I don't have I just didn't I didn't see the amount right now. You know the amount. Do we know the amount? Chief got chief I just didn't see I I didn't see the I know what it's for. I just didn't see an amount. Good evening madam president, school board members, superintendent GarcA. Uh it was amount that we got. It was about 17,000. Okay. And it just covers uh us going to the houses after hours instead of pulling the officers during the day so we won't
062be short-handed and for the safety of the kids and staff. Uh so what we did is we applied for this grant. Got it. It uh it sends a TCO police officer to the house and basically do a house visit to see how the students doing and making contact with the parents. Some of the parents work during the day. Uh it makes it kind of hard so we can have that communication. Uh we also deliver letters. We get about 100 letters from all the campuses and we distribute them over and present them to the house. I I say it's good. So as long as we stay within budget and we don't go over budget. It's 100% It's 100% uh granted. Uh the school it doesn't come from the school or anything like that. Awesome. Thank you
063so much. Any questions? That was it. Can I have a motion to approve item 12D as presented? Second, Mr. D. And a second. A second. Mr. Eddie. All those in favor, raise your right hand. And motion passes. Section 13, board governance has no items. And we will now move on to section 14, executive session for items 14 through 8 through 8 as listed on the posted agenda under Texas government code sections 551071-76 and 551082 through 84. The time is now 7:27 7:27 p.m. And we're now going to executive session. It is 8:10 and we are back from executive session going to item 9. Consider and take possible action on bids agreements up for renewal. Madame President, at this time, legal council recommends that the board approve for renewal bid number 2113, I'm sorry. Yes. 2113,
0642428, 2433, 2434, and 2436 along with agreement 703. And that the board and that the administration go out to rebid for new bids for all the following items. 2409 2443 2445 2449 2452 2535 2536 2601 2602 2603 2604 and 2605. Could I have a motion to approve item 9n as presented um by legal? Madam President, I will adopt uh what Mr. legal just said as my motion for item 9 in Eddie and do I have a second second Mr. Renee any questions all those in favor raise your right hand motion passes item 9 P consider and take possible action on awarding the following bids Madame President legal council recommends the board approve all the bids as presented I have a motion to approve item B as presented so move Mr. and a second. Second, Miss
065Paty. Uh, any questions, discussion? All those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion passes. We go on to executive session. By the notice, by this notice, the board of trustees determines that a closed or executive meeting. No, it's 15 now. 15. Oh, 15. Oh, we can meet. Okay. Um item 15A, discussion on personnel. Madam President, no action required for 15A. No action. Item 15B discussion on resignations retirements of existing personnel. Madam President recommends we approve the resignations presented in executive session. Okay. Do we have a motion to um so so move do we have a motion to approve items 15B? So move. So Eddie and do I have a second? Yeah. is resignation. Second, Miss Paty. All those in favor, raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item 15 C discussion and recommendation on stipen
066for blending learning. So move. A second. Second. Mr. Jesse. Any discussion. All those in favor raise your right hand. And motion passes. Item 15D, discussion on matters related to student expulsions. So move discussed in executive session. Do I have a second? Mr. Jesse. Um, all those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion passes. Item 15 E was discussion on intruder detection audit and report findings. There's no action required. This one, we are going to adopt the findings as presented in executive session. All right. Do I have a motion to adopt our findings as discussed in executive session? So move. And do I have a second? Second, Miss Paty. And any questions, discussion? All those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion passes. Item 15F, discussion on matters related to real estate. No items for this
067matter, ma'am. Nor for G either. We can go to H. We go on to item 15H, discussion and possible action to grant easement and a set proposal from the Texas facilities commission and authorize the superintendent to execute documents required for the matter. Legal council recommends approval for the sign it sign it. Madam President, do I have a motion to So move as legal council recommends. And do I have a second? A second. All those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion passes. 16 closing business and adjourment. Any announcement for upcoming events? Uh Madame President, on March 26, we will have a special Olympics hosted by Sapata ISD. And then we also have on April the 4th, we'll have our annual disability walk. Thank you so much. Any other comments, Miss Garcia? That's it. Uh I
068guess just one more comment just to let you all know that we did have a Delpas window. It will be closing this Friday, March 28th. We are at 99% completion rate. So we congratulate basketball team and go ahead. We congratulate uh we still go back and I guess congratulate our uh Rler basketball team. I mean they went into the second round. Uh great job with the coaching and the students of course uh playing awesome games. I was able to attend some of those games. Also congratulations to our backto back uh state powerlifting champion Kylie Trevinho from Guya High School. So congratulations Kylie for your second year in a row as a state champ for powerlifting. How about our softball girls? They went undefeated for the first round. Undefeated the first round. Yeah, I think softball
069girls not season's still in the middle, but I think the first round they went undefeated. So, uh we're expecting, you know, same the same the second go around and hopefully they'll go deep into the playoffs. Congratulations to them and hopefully we didn't miss any other congratulations. So, nobody else. No. All right, that's it. Congratulations to Congratulations to everyone. And it is 8:15. This meeting is adjourned.