001to win. Good afternoon everyone. A regular meeting of the board of trustees of the Macau Independent School District will be held Tuesday, June 24th, 2025, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Doctor of the Godlu Chapa Boardroom at Administration Building of the Macallen ISD uh Macau Independent School District, 2000 North 23rd Street, Macau, Texas 78501. Items listed on this agenda may be taken in an order other than as shown on this agenda. Unless removed from the consent agenda, items identified within the consent agenda will be acted on at what time at one time. At this meeting, there may be discussion and action by the board on the items and subjects listed as followed. Item number one, call the meeting to order. I have done so at 5:30 p.m. Item number two, moment of silence. Thank you.
002Item number three, 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 and justice for all. Okay, item number four, public comments. I believe we have two speakers today, and we'll just play the short video. Here are the public comment procedures. Number one, individuals who wish to participate during the portion of the meeting designated for public comment shall sign up at mcgllanisd.org at least one hour prior to the start of the scheduled meeting. Number two, an individual's comments to the board shall not exceed two minutes per meeting. Number three, the board shall not tolerate disruption of the meeting by members of the audience. Thank you. Gracias. Okay. Our first speaker today is Miss Deborah Rubio.
003You'll have two minutes, Miss Rubio. Thank you. Good afternoon, Mr. Dr. Gutierrez and board members. I am here representing some passionate, committed librarians who proudly serve our students, staff of Macallen ISD. We come with full hearts, open minds, and a question we hope will truly be considered. Librarians are not extras. We are not just part of your rotation. We are essential. We are instructional partners, digital leaders, curriculum collaborators, and campus connectors. This year alone, I've given 40 tours to 40 potential students, and all 40 enrolled at Kathy Middle School. We support every student, every teacher, and every administrator every single day. And yet, we continue to feel the aftermath of when it comes to compensation and recognition. Many of our librarians have been teacher of the year. Some of our librarians represent us at the
004state level. Many of us took pay cuts to join Macallen ISD because we believe in the students and the district's position in education. We knew this district had a reputation of excellence and high expectations and we were willing to face that challenge. But what we didn't expect was how unappreciated we felt today. Despite the incredible value we provide for our students, our daily rates are lower than teachers rates at this point. I believe that is unacceptable. We understand that the state place librarians at a state admin scale of level three, but the district has a decision to make. Do you value literacy? Do you value your librarians? Let's not ignore the data in front of you. In the last six years, we've lost 26 librarians of the 32 positions. Please consider the profession as we
005are masters in our service. We provide a master's degree with a minimum of three years expertise in the in this realm. Let's send a message to all that include our qualifications and what we give to our community and campus. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And next we have Julia Anetto. I came I'm prepared with a speech, but I'm just going to talk off the top of my head like I usually do. Um I'm here for the same reason, but I'm here to advocate for counselors. Uh I came on board 1998 to Mallen ISD. Okay, there you go. uh to Macallen ISD. When I came on board, we were in the same category as teacher, nurse, librarian. In 2008, when I transferred from Gara to Alvarez, it changed. I was informed by at that time
006Aora Longoria who was in human resources that the category for us counselors was going to be that of admin as opposed to teacher and that it would be better for us. That was not the case though because the increase um c teachers have tech u traditionally gotten 2.5 um we don't get that we get less we get 1.2 to 1.5. So, our raise has not been the same. When I signed on board in 1999 with Mallen ISD, at the end of my career, I was supposed to make I was supposed to retire with 80,000, a little bit over 80,000. I'm not near that. I'm about 5,000 short of that, and I should have retired three years ago. Um, I also went to talk to Mr. Krauss at that time regarding that because I was nearing
007retirement and he gave me a formula which I did not understand and when asked to for him to explain I still did not understand and I consider myself a pretty intelligent person. I said when do I hit the high and he gave me another formula and basically told me that we never hit the high. So now I'm hitting the rule of 90. I'm three years beyond retirement you know with for the rule of 80 and I'm still at midpoint. My question was, when do I hit the high? Well, we never do. That's what we were told. We don't think it's fair compared especially when we see that librarians are getting a 2.5 and we're getting a 1.5. And the amount of work and responsibility that we have is tremendous. I mean, I don't have I
008mean, I'll tell you stories privately, but counselors do a lot. We do all the admin work, RTI, special education. We do classroom guidance 85% of our time. Log it on in. I mean, Dr. The Oils can tell you everything counselors do. We've been recognized time and time again with our crest awards. We just want the board, everybody to reconsider, take a close look at what counselors earn and adjust our pay. Thank you so much. Thanks. Okay. Item number five, public hearing to discuss 202526 budget and proposed 25 tax rate. Dr. Gutierz. Yes. Uh board of trustees. Uh we welcome everyone to this public hearing. In this hearing, we will be discussing the fiscal year for the 2025 2026 budget and proposed uh 2025 tax rate. Miss Lorena Garcia, our deputy superintendent for business and operations
009will proceed with a presentation and we have a PowerPoint and this PowerPoint is to uh review the budget that uh we've been talking about for the last five or six months and so now it's coming down to the final uh approval tonight and uh prior to that approval we're having this public hearing and and presenting the budget to the public. Go ahead, Miss Garcia. Thank you. Uh good evening, President Ria, members of the board and Dr. Gutierrez. Um to today we're going to present on the public hearing uh for our 2025 budget and proposed tax rate for 2025. Uh first of all, I'd like to thank you for all of your support in the preparation of this budget. Your guidance has been vital in this process and we do appreciate all of that that uh
010advice that you have provided uh throughout the budget season. I also uh would like to acknowledge our superintendent for his leadership in uh developing this budget and um for the executive leadership team as well. Um and I'd like to uh highlight our chief human resource officer and our chief financial officer uh Dr. Albert Canales and Hel Garcia as well as their respective teams uh because they have put in a lot of hours and a lot of work. Uh I'd also like to thank our campus principles as well as our district administrators who all share a role in developing this budget. So it's a team of many. Uh this this budget was developed with our district's vision and mission in mind and attaining the the district goals and supporting um through fiscal responsibility. The first step
011uh that uh we took uh recently was to provide a public notice. This was advertised in the newspaper on June 14th. This notice advised the public that we would be holding a public hearing today to discuss the budget and they were welcome to attend. Uh we do allow for a section for comments from the community. The public notice provide provided information on the budget. It also provided information on the appraised value of our district. Uh uh it also uh gave a history of our tax rate and our proposed tax rate. It provides a comparison of proposed levy with last year's levy on the average residence. And as you can see, uh uh this year we are proposing uh what essentially amounts to on a $255,000 home a tax decrease of approximately $32.37. Um uh finally,
012the notice also provided information on our district's fund balance. To go uh uh over our tax rate history, we are providing the public with this chart that provides six years of tax rate history. As you can see, the district's total tax rate has been decreasing over time uh due to uh tax rate compression um and decreases by the district. We also are providing you with the proposed 2526 uh tax rate. Essentially, it is a little bit more than 3 cent decrease from last year's tax rate. So, this will save our taxpayers money. Um the proposed tax rate is 9638 and it's a difference of 0328 from last year's tax rate. The state requires that we publish a budget summary uh by the functional level uh for our budget which compares the actual budget. This uh
013this is our 2425 actual budget in the yellow that you're seeing and that does include any budget amendments that were approved throughout the year in those amounts. And then uh we illustrate the 2526 proposed budget. As you can see, it's broken out by each of the functions. and function 11 being the largest of the expenditures for the district. And it continues on to the next page and this has already been published on our district website. As you know, average daily attendance is one of the tools that we utilize to forecast our uh state revenues. Um, we are providing uh a chart with a history of our district's average daily attendance and attendance rate as well as enrollment. Uh, this is a five-year history. Included in that is our proposed uh average daily attendant which we
014built this budget on and that number was 17,685.65. We also projected this budget with uh a 94.93% uh attendance rate which is what we are forecasting. And now moving on to the actual budget. We are presenting a comparison of revenues by object code for the general the debt service and the capital projects funds. What we are bringing to you is essentially a balanced budget. We did have to have a contribution of uh I'm sorry that's really small 594,328 from uh general fund uh balance and that was as a result of increasing the raises. Uh we were asked to consider a 75% increase for our hourly staff. Um so to review uh what the budget summary has, it is broken up by the different revenue sources, our local, our state, and our federal. Um the largest
015part of the revenue coming from the state. Uh the total is 278,873,437. In addition to that, we do have uh some maintenance tax note money from 2020 that we will be utilizing throughout the year for some specific projects which include the uh silent panic alarm technology project. Uh several uh uh generators at the middle school levels for emergency response and then a couple of of chiller projects that we're still working on. The next chart provides the same information. However, it's organized by the fund number. These are the different funds that compose uh the general fund. Um the largest one that we use for our operating budget is the general fund. As you can see in this chart, we are providing the proposed 2025 2026 budget as well as a comparison of what the original budget
016was uh before any amendments uh for 2425 and what that difference is. Uh it also has a section for our debt service fund. Um and then our capital projects funds. This is another illustration of the same budget. However, it organizes it by the object code and that categorizes it in payroll costs which is the greatest percentage at 81.99% of our budget. We also are budgeting for professional and contracted services, uh supplies and materials, other operating costs, debt service, and capital outlay. Um we provide a comparison of the proposed budget, the percentage of the total as well as the original budget from last year. Our appropriations uh by function for the 2425 accelerated instructional funds uh are shown in this next chart. It's 181,411. We are required to to provide the accelerated instruction fund budget separately
017and it must be voted on prior to the budget. Uh so this is to provide targeted support for students that that uh need targeted uh for the targeted support for uh students that didn't achieve uh grade level standards on STAR and EOCC assessments. And finally, we do have a charge that provides the budget by the functional level because the board uh usually sees the budget at the functional level and that's how the approvals are done. Uh as you can see uh the chart on the right provides the different functions function 11 function 12 and so on and so forth and how the the the uh revenue from the general fund is listed. We have the debt service the capital from projects and then the total total uh budget allocations. And that concludes the public hearing
018uh presentation. At this time, I would look would like to open it up for comments either from the public or from the board. Okay. Well, uh we'll give the public uh chance to comment. There's anybody in the public that would like to comment, please let us know. Okay. This item was for information purposes only. Okay. Thank you guys. Item number six, discussion and possible action of the Mallen ISD June budget amendment for fiscal year beginning July 1st, 2024 and ending June 30th, 2025. Dr. Good, please. We are recommending approval of the June 2025 uh budget amendment for the 2425 fiscal year. Uh, Miss Laura Garcia, our deputy superintendent for business and operation will have any more details or questions if you may have and we are recommending action on this item. This is our final
019budget for the the fiscal year. Uh, in that budget, we are providing a list of uh additional revenues that we are seeing. Um, some of the highlights are there's an increase to interest income and and that is on the next page. Let's see on the revenue side. Let me enlarge it so that they can see it. Um of 264,24 this this is for fund 197 our maintenance tax notes. We also had an increase in interest income uh of we are projecting an increase of 2.4 million and this is for the general fund. Um, we also received other revenue that came in from different sources such as uh the regional golf tournament registration for uh athletics and and you will see later on in the expenditures where they use that that money increase to ticket sales
020for athletics and then we also had some contributions for the uh uh study abroad program. Uh we had increased to rental revenue for fund 199 and then uh other revenues such as conven convenience fees and rebates. And then we had uh a payment regarding the uh storm um claim of 349,372. We also processed the six six weeks uh summary of finance template um for uh the term and we made some adjustments to the different fund levels. Um as you can see some of them increased and some of them uh did decrease. We did see a decrease of 883,640 in the general fund. Uh part of that has to do with the indirect costs because we do take indirect costs from the other programs and when they decrease we we have to decrease 199. The other
021reason is a decrease in uh average daily attendance for the six weeks. And then we had some um funding from safe and secure from the different campuses that they're providing them for a specific purpose. As you can see, we have the revenue side and then later on you will see a transaction for that same expenditure at the bottom. Um, we uh the biggest entry there under other sources is the uh the staff refresh. What that was was a lease purchase, a three-year lease purchase that the board approved for laptops for staff. And you're going to see that we we're booking the lease revenue in the revenue side and then we book the expenditure uh by function uh in the expenditure side at the same amount. So it it uh washes off and the the 2.9
022is a total for the three years and we're simply placing the laptops in the different functions as they were distributed in the expenditure. Uh a lot of the stuff that you saw on the top will appear as I mentioned before. Um uh where we are using fund balance is for example in function 34 which is transportation. We did have to provide a 100,000 for overtime due to high activity levels related to the summer school program and end of year activities and the meals on wheels. Uh there was an increased need for gasoline. Um and uh that was 25,000 and then they are working on their prevent and maintenance program and they requested 90,000 to fund that. That is coming from fund balance. Um in addition to that we had uh an increase um in the
023extracurricular function 36 um for athletics. Uh we had some expenses some uh contracted services. Um and then we also had an increase request from maintenance and operation in function 51 and that was a transfer from assigned fund balance. We still had some money in our assigned f balance and that we were able to provide for them and then uh we also uh had talked about transferring a million dollars into the health fund and that is on the other uses. In addition to that in function 71 which is debt service you see where we are making the payment of 1.1 million that's going into the fund balance of the maintenance tax note which is fund 197. We did have in the debt service uh an increase in revenue and that had to do with interest earnings
024as well and it was 149,000 and let me show you that on the screen. And I know this is a longer than usual budget amendment, but since it it's the final, we were uh processing that. Um we also on the capital projects fund, we were able to use that to to provide for the engineering services uh required to plan for the Macallen Veterans Memorial Stadium uh project, the turf and track. And that was an amount of 165,900. Please let me know if you have any questions. That's that's it. I move to this for approval. I move to approve. Okay. I have a motion by trustee PÑA. Do I have a second? Second. Have a second by trustee Lopez. All those in favor. All opposed. Motion passes 70. Item number seven, discussion and possible action on
025compensation plan for school year 202526. Dr. as per board policy DEA local. The superintendent shall recommend an annual compensation plan for all district employees. The compensation plan may include the wage and salary structures, stipens, benefits, and incentives. administration is recommending a general pay uh increase for all employees for the 2526 school year. Dr. Albert Canales, chief human resources officer will share more information. We are recommending action on this item. Uh we have been talking about the compensation plan throughout the last couple of months during our budget workshops. But can you give us an overview Dr. Canales of the highlights of the compensation plan? Sure. President, Dr. Gut and members of the board. So, we're recommending uh for right now, we have a one to twoyear experienced teachers uh $1,560. Uh that's locally funded as an
026increase as a pay raise for our one to two-year teachers. Our teachers with zeroyear experience coming in at 55,300. Uh last year they were at 54,000. So, that's another that's an increase there for our brand new teachers coming in. Uh you're also looking at three to four year teachers uh $2,500. That's with House Bill two. And then teachers with five plus years experience, you're looking at $5,000 uh increase uh based on House Bill Two. We're also uh recommending a 2.5% paygrade midpoint for non-eing professional staff. Uh pair professionals and auxiliary staff will be given the greater of the two of 75 cents or the greater of the midpoint uh for an increase of of midpoint there. As per tax recommendation, additional pay adjustments are made across all pay groups uh to ascertain that all salaries
027are at least a paygrade uh range minimum. Uh in addition to the general pay increase, administration is recommending an additional employer contribution to the employee health plan of $660 annually. So that's $55 more per month uh that we've discussed throughout this process here uh for benefits package to include health, dental, and life insurance for a total employer contribution. Right? how much we're giving to the employee uh annually of $6,49452 annually. Uh and for this increase is it that would cost $54121 uh per employee per month uh that we contribute. So the total funds in uh raises and everything is almost it's $9.97 million 146 there. and then fringe benefits. You're looking at uh 2,ion46 uh dollars approximate in fringe benefits. So we know we've uh all the board y'all have all worked extremely hard. Dr.
028with that is uh you know for for doing the pay increase the 2 and a half% the increase on teacher salaries the increase of salaries across the board uh increase for our uh hourly staff of at least 75 cents uh or greater than midpoint and stipens and stipens and and additional to the stipens as well. So, you know, we're moving the needle across the board in every single area when you look at uh stipens, when you look at stuff for both in in athletics, in fine arts, and in UIL. So, we've we've ended up raising the needle for for everybody. So, we're real proud of of what we've been able to accomplish uh this season with the budget, uh in looking at staffing, also in addition to bringing back uh the planning period as well.
029So, it's done a good job. Thank you all. Well, thank you all for the hard work. Um, this budget has been a tough one. We've received the calls, um, the emails, the text messages. I received them all from the librarians, the counselors, the teachers, support staff, and everybody. And I I'm proud that we're able to offer an increase and some kind of a stipen increase, pay raise across the board for everybody. Um, we've rebounded back from a tough situation a couple of years ago and with everybody's hard work, we're in a better place and we're able to offer that. And um, we hope to be able to continue this progress and offer more as we go. I recognize all of you that called me, texted me. I hear you. We're doing our best and we'll
030continue to do that. Um, I'm really proud of this board and the way we're able to work together and uh, we hope everybody has a great summer and you enjoy, you know, every bit of that. So, thank you everybody. Okay, board discussion. Yeah. Uh, I want to echo Miss Pena's comments and um, appreciation for the staff uh, and the community to, you know, let your voices be heard through this process. um you know, six of one, half a dozen of the other in terms of what the increases coming out of the state were. Um I think we all wanted to see more. Um and the funds that were released obviously make a big difference, but one of the drawbacks of the way that that bill ultimately played out was that a lot of that money
031was tied up on specific dedicated expenditures, which hamstrung some of our flexibility um in where to be able to apply the increases in funding. Um, I hope that in the future as we grow our um allocation from the state, as we grow our entitlement um both through uh attempting to stem the enrollment decline in our district, but also through maximizing the additional sources of funds that are available through uh things like the CCMR outcomes bonus um and other sources of innovative funding um including the teacher prep aotment um that we may be able to find additional ways to grow staff salaries uh outside of the teacher category uh above and beyond what we've been able to do this year. Um, and for those of you all that have been in touch, um, I appreciate your
032outreach, uh, and look forward to continuing the conversation to try to identify ways in which we can better compensate, uh, the community of educators, um, across the entire district as well as the sports staff. But again, I want to appreciate the staff and the community for your advocacy and your hard work in getting us to this place today. I I will just add I think Trusty Pena and Trusty Guard covered it well for me. I echo their sentiments and thank you all for uh working with us to put this budget together. Um to counselors, librarians, and um others. Um I'm happy you're getting the 2.5. I wish we could do more. Um but as I said, we'll continue working. Okay. Um move to approve. I have a motion. I did want to add Sorry. I'm
033sorry. Um, so Dr. Canal, I know that you and I spoke earlier and I wanted to see if you might be able to shed some light so that we can all understand a little better. Um, when people have this idea of we're never going to hit maximum. Can you speak to that? Um, and how it's not it's not that that we don't want them to get to maximum, but can you kind of speak to why those numbers change and those markers? So So when we're looking at the like the minimum, the mid, and the maximum it goes, we go by how many years experience that you're coming in on, right? So every year that we go through this whole TASBY process of of getting pay raises and going through increases, Tasby comes out with a
034new minimum, midpoint, and a maximum. So that midpoint is always moving. So it might move another $100, $200 the needle, but then we're barely we're moving the needle from that point to this point. So you're never really ever you're never really hitting that midpoint because that race is always one step ahead. It's why we could reach the midpoint if there was never any kind of raises done. But then if Tabby never did the did the salary quotes or they never did the market comparisons, then it would stay stagnant. But because you go by market comparisons, once that needle moves up, then we're moving staff up. So you're constantly moving and then trying to get there. And then right when you're getting to the midpoint, the salary increases for midpoint. So you're moving again with the
035midpoint. So you never really actually ever hit that part or ever hit the really the maximum part of that part. That's how that's how it's it works with the with the scales. And um when we're talking about the obviously the state the legislature finally did confer a big benefit that was long overdue um for a portion of our of our professionals um in doing those raises for teachers, but they also excluded a lot of people from that. And so, um, in speaking to Trusty Gudion's point about doing better or seeing ways that we can improve compensation for the those other groups, um, did we consider I know that the timing is really awful and y'all have put so much work into it and it doesn't not go unnoticed, but did we consider at all perhaps
036changing the number of days in the contracts for those other target populations or um I I know I know the counselors, for instance, I think we're at 2011 days, Right. And then librarians are at 197. Have you considered if if there's any room to adjust in that way so that we can try to level the field a little bit if we're not able to do additional percentage raise. So usually when we go by the daily rate, they get paid the daily rate times the number of of days. Uh that would really consider a whole different adjustment to how we do the those salary quotes uh for those individuals in that in those pay grades for the counselors, librarians, and or nurses. And so it's not feasible to do that or it is I don't believe
037it'd be feasible. I mean you want to talk to Yes. If um if since employees professional employees get paid based on the daily rate and daily rate times the number of days if we were to reduce the days then their annual salary would be lower. Uh we could change the uh the number of days and they'd be working less days but at the end of the year their take-home would be less. So that would not give them uh an increase. It would just give them more days off. Okay. And so we couldn't increase their daily rate to accomplish the same or in another way. I mean I know that um for librarians, right? They receive a $2,500 stipent for their master for the master's degree. But it's not just that's not just for librarians. That's
038also for teachers. anybody in the teacher pay scale receives a uh we're proposing an increase this coming year to $2,500. Okay. And so is have we considered whether we could do some kind of stipend adjustment that would be specific to librarians andor counselors, whatever the case may be because I know you mentioned previously like we're talking about we're comparing apples to oranges. Everybody's important and everybody plays a vital role, but we're kind of forced in this compensation scheme to make everybody even and it's not. So, have we thought about how we might be able to adjust stipens so that that would accomplish? So, typically stipens are given for uh additional duties or uh an accomplishment such as master's degree beyond what the requirements of the job are. uh for the most part you don't see
039too many stipens in the administrative pay scale uh because uh they're already paid according to their job description. So that was not a consideration. Um as far as uh the employees that uh uh that were moved from the the teacher pay scale. Uh it wasn't just librarians. There was uh you know some other uh groups uh such as instructional coaches and behavior strategists and so forth. So, uh, if we were to create a stipen, then, uh, we would, uh, have to have a purpose for that stipen as to why they're receiving it other than just to to supplement the salary. Um, one of the things that, uh, TASBY does look at, however, it would require an investment of funds is they look at, uh, teacher pay equity um, with where they compare them uh, to
040the teaching salaries and they proposed uh, specific adjustments. However, uh, what I've seen them do in the past is they only focus on the the lower uh, levels of experience versus the more it doesn't benefit the the ones with more experience. Um that does require that the district um you know set up additional funds to cover cover those adjustments. Yeah. What takes place too is the state mandates where they fall, right? Though like the state is the one who says librarians um this this and this go in this category one, two or three. The state sets that right now. So this the state is the one the state legislature is the one that uh placed in house bill 2 uh the stipulation that the teacher retention allotment would only go to teachers and then it
041was subsequently defined that teachers would be uh coded as uh ps code087 which is your classroom teachers teachers of record. Uh they don't have to be teachers of record to qualify for the retention statement. um uh so but they do have to teach uh for a minimum of four hours. So that was their definition. And then TEA subsequently issued some guidance to districts where they said that uh if districts had pay scales uh for teachers that included other chapter 21 contract employees such such as and they identified nurses and librarians that uh they would have to create a new pay scale just for teachers. Uh that way uh you know because the retention stipen would only apply to teachers. So then uh working with TASPY um those positions were identified which ones did not fall
042under that guidance and they were placed accordingly uh in the administrative education pay scale. I'm trying to think about a lot of different things right now. I know this is really tough and I I've gotten a lot of emails and I want to talk to you guys directly. Thank you for emailing us and thank you for all the work that you do. You see hundreds of students daily and you are important and vital to our entire district. So, thank you. and we're trying to kind of think about how we can remedy because yes, the state identifies you in different, you know, areas and you're you're being moved around to different places, but I do believe local districts also um have some flexibility like with a stipen um or maybe we can consider I don't know
043like a bonus or some some way to remedy because it doesn't doesn't make sense how it's set up. Um, I know we all read through those emails and all the data that librarians and counselors provided us, but I guess I'm wondering personally I I I've seen our budget and we're looking at a lot of capital projects and I and it doesn't feel right to pass along certain projects but not um, you know, support some of our most most needed staff. Um, and I don't really like the message that that that sends. So, I would love to think of a way to whether it's with stipens or a bonus or something in the meantime that we can consider for um leveling the playing ground, I guess, for both librarians and counselors because they were originally within
044the teacher. Well, only librarians. The C counselors have been on the administrative uh pay scale already and nurses as well. Okay. So, it was just the it was just librarians, librarians and instructional coaches and Yeah. So the ones that move were instructional coaches, literacy, math writing 3 through eight, instructional coach, science intervention, campus librarians, uh teacher instructional coaches, uh K through five, six and eight, teacher bilingual English uh learner coach, teacher behavior strategist, and innovative instructional coach. When we look at all those uh that we're talking about possibly moving, you're looking, just to give you an approximation, about 153 uh employees. The total total that was with that was because that was the advice from TA that they sent us a letter to separate the schedules. Right. That's correct. That's from T. Yes. TA was
045give us that and they flip-flop back and forth because at the beginning they had they had teachers, librarians, nurses, counselors, and then it was teachers, counselors, librarians, and then it was teachers, librarians, and they brought out the librarians and they I think they put them back and they took them out again. uh all of these changes uh is came from legislative legislatively and and from those decisions that were made under House Bill 2 is is what we're we're complying with the law and what the the requirements are under House Bill 2. So that's what we that's been the whole intent of all of this budget is to comply with House Bill 2 and and what the recommendations we also got from TEA to that we were that we needed to follow those uh those changes
046and that's why we have this budget the way it is. To that point I did want to point out that what the legislature did was essentially comes out to about a 4 and a.5% increase. Right. Correct. So in our budget discussions, we've never contemplated a 4 and a.5% increase. Um however, we have considered something higher than 2 and a half. And so there's while these are guidelines that tea sets, um there's nothing that restricts us from doing different pay increases by different categories. And so I think that while there is at some point a cap, right, what you can make in a certain role, I think that we should still be striving to improve. And I think we have a lot of room to improve still. Um, and I don't mean to put all this
047on you super last minute, but this is what happens with our budgets um, being at the timing that we have them. Um, but I would really like to see if we could do a little bit better for those that were left out. We don't um this is our last meeting or we're going to have to No, we we we have to uh take action on the budget tonight because we we advertised 10 days prior to this uh to this date to have the public hearing and and to approve the budget. Uh the two and a half came out because uh again we're trying to balance the budget without going into a deficit. And so that's how we ended up coming up with a two and a half. Uh we were expecting a lot more. That's
048that's why we had talked about 3% 4% perhaps thinking that we were going to get more money from the state but uh obviously as uh trustee Karion said most of the money was already dedicated to certain uh areas that we can't touch and we cannot get into. So that's why it ended up being 2 and a half% because uh most of the money that we got is already dedicated to certain programs that we cannot uh utilize that money for anything else but for those programs. And that's the unfortunate thing that happened in Austin and and and and now we're having these discussions because uh we're one of the first districts that have to approve the budget and this all of this fin was final about three weeks ago and and so we were uh we're
049one of the first districts that having to adjust to all of this uh new requirements under House Bill 2 and and that's why we ended up giving two and a half% uh based on uh that always happens and and we we pass our budget and we set our raises and whatever we're going to do and then other districts start posting theirs and sometimes they're a little higher almost always a little higher and we get a lot of slack for that but I mean this is I think at this point what we can afford given the money that we're going to get and adhering to all the house bill two rules like but I think these are great suggestions and that we need to really um start this budget process in August and start looking at
050some of these ideas and how we can maybe incorporate those for next budget cycle. Um because they are potentially uh ways that we can provide additional compensation where we can. We are uh we are leaving the stipen to the in the librarians even though they're in the different pay grade that usually they don't stay there but we are leaving the stipen uh and we increased it by $500. It was 2,000 we increased it now to 2500. So they will get an addition that stipen that they're going to keep is uh is going to be a plus $500 more and then plus the two and a half percent uh which if I've checked surrounding districts those that are their budgets are due in June I think at two and a half we're uh some of them
051have given only 2%. We're one of the few at two and a half. There's a district that gave 4% but uh that's one of those that uh they have they were able to manage a 4%. Other than that, ours after that is two and a half is one of the highest uh because from what I hear from other districts that have already approved their budgets has been 2%. So we we're trying to we recognize everybody's work and we recognize that everyone is valuable. Everyone matters in the district and we're just trying to see how we can do the best that we can with what we have and and be able to bring a a budget that is balanced but also compensate our employees because that's always a priority to compensate our employees and that's always
052been our intent and our goal. And um just to clarify, superintendent MISD did not um terminate any employees, right? I mean we let positions go by attrition, but did not wholesale during the budget deficit. Did not No, we sought to ensure that employees had a stable job. That's correct. We we kept our employees and and that was one of our our goal since last year that to to keep everyone employed, not lay off any employees. And if any positions were closed is because employees resigned, retired or left the district and if the position could be uh consolidated with another employee, that's what we did. But uh at no point in time did we lay off any employees and we continue to do that. I know um you know being at the two and a half%
053it wasn't what we had initially thought when we were contemplating four five 6% when we heard of the funds that that we we were going to receive as districts in Texas. And you know every year we say we want to start our budget meetings earlier so that we're ready and prepared. And I know this year we did we did start early on um with you know the big plans for the increases um and it's unfortunate that it wasn't until three weeks ago that we knew the final numbers um and even at 2 and a half% that's the highest that we have given as a district um at at least in my time back here because when we first got elected the proposed raise was 0% % by the prior board and we scrambled and calculated
054and crunched numbers that night to get something. Um, and so then the prior we were like at two and now we're at two and a half plus the increase that we were able to give for the benefits which we all know the insurance costs have been um outrageous. So, I'm grateful for the work that this board has done because we did start early and we did have hopes um for much larger raises because we know that everybody in our district works um extremely hard and we see it in the outcomes of our graduates that we just celebrated a couple weeks ago. Um but unfortunately, you know, here we are. And so I would hate to put it on anybody that, you know, we weren't um prepared or that we weren't given enough information because, you
055know, basically, you know, the state had made preliminary promises and that's not what we got. And so unfortunately, this is where we are. And I know we always talk about um the stipend or you know I forgot what we call it you know during uh Thanksgiving and Christmas for our employees. Um and it it's terrible to put us in that situation being one of the first districts that um passes our budget because we always pass our budget and then everybody else after us seems to have more time. But um with that being said, I'm I'm grateful for again all the calls and the emails that we received. We completely understand and we as well were completely sidetracked by the drastic reduction in the monies that we were allocated. But, you know, here we are with
056a balanced budget, which is much more than what I heard, you know, being at the TASBY conference last week where districts are in huge holes, enrollment is down, um, and and they're making drastic cuts to employees. And so I'm glad that that today we are guaranteeing, you know, that our our teachers have jobs. Um our employees all have jobs and we're we're increasing as much as possible where we can. So with that said, I move to approve. I second. Okay. I have a motion for approval by trustee Erica Lagar Lopez, a second by Trustee Pñena. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion passes. 70. Item number eight, discussion and possible action of the Macau Independent School District budget for fiscal year beginning July 20 July 1st, 2025 and ending June 30th, 2026. Dr. Gutierrez. The
057Texas Education Code and Board Policy CE requires every local education agency to repair a budget of anticipated expenditures and revenues on or before June the 19th. The budget shall be approved by Macallen Independent School District Board of Trustees no later than June 30th. Miss Lorena Garcia, Deputy Superintendent for Business and Operations, will report on the 2526 budget. And we are recommending action on this item. You have any to cover? Uh yes. Uh the uh 2526 budget was developed using a student average daily attendance of 17,685.65 and it was also developed with a tax rate of 9638 and a tax collection rate of uh 96%. Uh we are recommending uh that the board approve and adopt uh the budget. We do have two motions for your consideration tonight. Okay. Do I have any discussion from the
058board? Do we have the two? I don't I don't do the the motions. Yes. Uh approval and adoption should be on the Okay. The notes the uh All right. I move to I move that the board of trustees approve and adopt the Macau Independent School District's budget as follows. Uh approval and adoption of the accelerated instruction funds budget of 181 $181,411 for fiscal year beginning July 1st, 2025 and ending June 30th, 2026. Second. Okay. I have a motion by trustee and a second by trustee regal. All in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes 70. Okay. I further move that the board of trustees approve and adopt the general fund budget of $265,565,375 and the debt service fund budget of 13,92,390 and a capital projects fund budget of 1,594,7 for a total budget of 281,61,772 for
059fiscal year beginning July 1st, 2025. five and ending June 30th, 2026. Second. I have a motion by trusted Vera, a second by Trusty Pena. All in favor? I. All oppose. Uh motion passes. 7. Okay. And item number nine, consent agenda items. I move to approve. Oh, you want to read it? I'm sorry. No. I move to approve consent agenda items 9A through 9G. Okay. I have a motion by trustee Pñena. Second, and a second by trustee Regalado. All in favor? I. All opposed? Motion passes. 7. Okay. And we are on item number 10, instructional services, instructional leadership, human resources, business operations, and board of trustee items. 10 A, instructional services, instructional leadership items. 10B, human resource. 10B1 discussion and possible action of the Texas Association of School Board TASBY localized policy manual update 124 second
060reading Dr. Mu presented from TASBY and reviewed by our staff. This update represents legal and local reference policies recently adopted by the state administration is presenting this item as a second reading for approval. Dr. Canales human the chief human resources officer will share any more information or questions that you may have and we are recommending action on this item and this is pretty much the legal side that it's we had uh we went through the first reading it was 52 legal updates uh and then it was also a total uh local updates so moved okay I have a motion by trustee Raelo second second by trustee Pñena All in favor? I I All oppose. Motion passes 6. 10B2 discussion and possible action of revision to board policy BF local board policies. Second reading. Dr. Gives
061administration is recommending a change to BF local policy as per board of trustees recommendation in regards to the adoption and amendments. Dr. Canales will share any more information or answer any questions and we're recommending action on this item. Were you able to uh get a a TASBY uh along with with a recommended language? Yes, sir. So, the recommended language that they gave me uh they gave me one uh not to include what we talked about before the supermajority, but instead to include in that part of it where it talked about the be legal. So, anytime we're doing any kind of board agenda item that requires an emergency, we look at our BE legal. And if you look at your BE legal packet there, if you go to page number five, on page number five, it
062discusses their emergency meeting or emergency addition to the agenda, that is the the state outlines uh what we can constitute an emergency meeting. So right there it tells you um in an emergency or when there is an urgent public necessity, the notice of a meeting to deliberate or take action on the emergency or urgent public necessity or supplemental notice to add the deliberation or take action. Uh there was question last time about what constitute what constitutes an emergency like how do well this already tells you what an emergency is there. So it looks like it talks about imminent threat to public health reasonable unforeseen situation including fire, flood, earthquake, uh power failure, transportation failure, uh natural disasters, uh and such. So they're recommending on the other item that we gave you there that we add
063the part where it says CBE legal. So if you look at adoption and amendment on the BF local policy now we're just adding we're keeping the same language but adding CBE legal so that we can reference uh what we constitutes an emergency meeting. So um I have a comment the lang like the concern we had like you said was about determining what an emergency or what constitutes an emergency and my understanding is that TASBY gave us this language. Um the issue I have with the language that TASBY is proposing is um that they're referencing they're trying to tell us to go back to be legal which explains that but the language that we have in BF local talks about emergency adoption not emergency meetings. Um so I think there's just enough ambiguity there to cause
064a problem. And so in the effort to or in the interest of eliminating the ambiguity I had proposed language um to you Dr. Gonales. I know we didn't get a response back, but I had proposed that we include rather than emergency beginning where it says emergency adoption on BF local that it read emermergency adoption may occur at a quote emergency meeting unquote provided that the proposed policy and the meeting comport with policy be local emergency meeting requirements. Um so I would ask the board to take that instead. Um, obviously TASBY recommends policy language, but there are policies and I think that um, it's always best to not have ambiguity and so that's my concern. Okay. Have any discussion? Further discussion? Would that if we have a board meeting scheduled, an emergency arises, would we have
065to schedule a second and call it an emergency board meeting to address the issue, whatever the issue might be? I think that I don't know. I don't know the answer to that. But I think you're saying like we have this meeting scheduled today and earlier today an emergency happens and we need to take action on policy. Like essentially we could have an emergency meeting after a regular board meeting and still follow the emergency meeting rules, right? But it would have to be a separate Yeah. Much like we do sometimes when we have like a board workshop and then a regular meeting. So, so Trusty, do you want to make a motion on the language of what you read? Um, yes. I would like to move that the board consider approving, and obviously we'd have to
066take it for a second reading, but that the language read proposed local policies beginning on adoption and amendment of BF local proposed local policies. Sorry, it's difficult to read with the language scratched out. Um, essentially that in the adoption and amendment language, the last sentence read, "Emergency adoption may occur at an quote emergency meeting," unquote, provided that the proposed policy and the meeting comport with policy be legal parenthetical quote emergency meeting end quote and parenthetical requirements. Period. That's ter. Yes. the motion. Well, I just to clarify so we know what we're voting for. The proposed amendment would allow us to adopt um a policy on one reading if we declare an emergency per the definition in uh be illegal. However, you're what you're saying is that we still use be illegal, but we would just
067have to have a second emergency meeting. No, it's saying the same exact thing. What I'm trying to do is eliminate the ambiguity in as written by TASBY. It references an emergency adoption, but it doesn't say emergency meeting, but it references us back to emergency meeting in be legal because that's what be illegal is. So, I'm just trying to clarify within this policy that what we mean by emergency adoption is is within the confines of an emergency meeting, which has other requirements. Do you believe that TASBY might have been saying CBE legal for to describe what the emergency would be? Yes, that's exactly what I mean. Yeah, that's how I read it. But right, but I don't think that it reads that way. That's how I read it though because so in looking and we all
068have our different interpretations, right? But in looking at it, it says emergency meeting or emergency addition to the agenda. And so I'm looking at the second paragraph where it's saying emergency or urgent public necessity exists only if immediate action is required of a board because and then it lists the definition. So I'm looking to that part of the policy when I refer to CBE legal. But right I want to know how you guys are seeing it because that's how I see it and that's how TASBY is saying but I'm saying we should clarify that in BF local it says emergency adoption where I would say it should say emergency meeting or adoption at an emergency meeting. Adoption. We're saying the same thing. I'm just just adding that that sentence. What is Mr. Ball? What What
069do you How do you read it? I mean, I know we have a lot of attorneys here, but far too many for it to be counterproductive to be for it to be efficient. Depends on what is is. And um I think that if you're having an emergency meeting, it presupposes to some degree that you have to be able to act at that meeting. So if you need to adopt something at that meeting, it's built in to that notion of having the emergency meeting. So from my perspective, I don't necessarily see the ambiguity. With all due respect, however, that said, this is y'all's policy and you can add in whatever language you want or take out whatever language. I mean, we I mean, this board has participated in I mean, I know when the 2012 hail
070storm happened, we had an emergency meeting then. I for sure remember watching online when the board met during the COVID uh situation. So, I I'm just wondering like what What misinterpretation would would if you read BF local by itself, it's talking about adoption, an amendment by itself of just board policies. Then it references you and says it points you to emergency adoption, but it doesn't say at an emergency meeting. So as I read it or somebody else could say, well, I think this is an emergency, so we need to adopt a different policy. But there's not an emergency as defined by be local legal. And what tas is telling us is that the only way you can have an emergency meeting if it only meets a legal criteria. That's it. You can't have one for
071any other reason other than that if that's the concern in the BF series you can say regarding said regarding the uh policy adoption you can say you could just reference it back to be legal which deals with emergency meetings if you want that to me that's what the paz leader is recommending but they're not using the language emergency meeting my labbotomy in law school is we've extended the period that we should probably discuss this. I just can't help myself. Um but I've said my piece. It's okay. Let's hope that emergency meetings are rare. Zero. We do have a motion on the table. I'll second. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, that's fine. So, we have a motion by trusty and a second by trustee Hadad. All in favor? I. All oppose. Motion passes. Seven. So then you got
072that canal. So that way we can Yes, sir. I I I don't think we need to bring it for a second reading. I think this was that was it. That was this was the second reading with that with that change and that'll catch us up and the next one we'll talk about that already came out is update 125. Okay. So that'll be the next one. Okay. Uh item where we 10 C one one discussion and possible action regarding James Nikki Row High School boys basketball booster club donation for the remodeling of the boys basketball locker room. Dr. Gutier, the James Nikki Row High School boys basketball booster club will donate 16,500 to remodel the boys basketball locker room to improve the campus for our athletics. Uh we have coach here, coach Taylor's here. uh there
073you have any comments to make about this and uh in regards to this donation and we are recommending action on this we're recommending action on this item and you no pressure you picked a fun one to come no awesome this uh is spearheaded by our booster club obviously basketball I'm not involved too much but I oversee them uh pretty cool little deal with them a lot of our ex- studentents so we talk about athletics being a a powerhouse for for leadership so the all these monies most of these monies have come from uh people who have gone to Nikki Ro student athletes. So that's what we're trying to push out. Uh pretty cool collective effort. We hope to have you guys support on this. Thank you. Great. Thank you so much. Thank you and thank
074you to the booster club. I think this is great. Fantastic for the for Nikki Row and for all the students there. It's great addition to the locker room. Uh enthusiastically move to approve. Second. Okay. I have an enthusiastic motion by trustee regal and same by trustee Erica dear Lopez. All in favor? I. All oppose. Motion passes 70. Thank you once again. And 102 discussion and possible action regarding opting out of homeschool student participation in university intercolastic league UIL activities. Dr. Gutierz. Yes. Uh this is part of the new uh legislative uh changes that came about uh Senate Bill 401 if I understand and the district is seeking approval from the board of trustees to formally opt out of allowing homeschool students to participate in UIL activities in accordance with the provisions allowed by the state
075law. Administration is recommending action on this item by a record vote. So move second. Okay. I have a motion by trustee Pñena and a second by trustee Garca Lopez. All in favor? I. All oppose. It's a record vote. So, uh, motion passes 70. Did you have to roll? Call roll call vote. Sorry. I I I I got to say trustee. Hi, Trusty Hadat. I, Dr. for trustee Kman I roll. Trustee Pñena I. Trustee Karion I. Trustee Dearala Lopez I and Trusty Rivera I. Motion passes 70. Perfect. Good job. Thank you. Thank you guys. All right. 10C3 report regarding update on facilities needs assessment and bond election timing options. Dr. Gutz. Yes. Uh the district is in the process of conducting uh the facilities needs assessment and uh we'll continue with that process when we come
076back from the summer break. The needs assessment will not only determine physical needs but also uh project dollar amounts uh necessary to address the identified facility needs. We have uh Dr. uh de los Santos uh from our financial advisor who's working with us on this as well as our business and operations office uh Miss Lorena Garcia, deputy superintendent uh to discuss more about this topic as well as uh any questions you may have and this is for information purposes only. But uh I'll start off with Dr. De Los Santos. Go ahead Dr. Los Santos. Thank you Dr. Gutierrez. U Mr. President, members of the board, Miguel de los Santos Estan Company actually estosa. We used to be company now. We're a division of Texas Regional Bank as all of you know. um you have a
077decision to make and uh I think uh you may want to be giving some ideas or some direction to the superintendent because uh whether whether this board will be considering an election either in November of 25 or May of 26. And the reason I give some direction is because should the board decide to move in November then the deadline for calling an election is August the 14th. 14. 14. Thank you very much. Yes. Yes. You have two calendar I believe they're in your packet. You have two calendars. One for May 26 and one for November the 4th of 2020 2025. The the major three items that are there is, you know, early voting starts on such and such a day. They're very they're very wordy because they relate to all kinds of elections that are
078happening in the state, including bond elections. But uh the decision is uh you either go before the board with a with a order from your bond attorney to call an election on August the 14th of 2025 to be called November uh of 2025 or you come before the board in February, the middle of February, I believe is the 13th uh to call an election for May of 26. So that is you know I just wanted to bring that to your attention. It also gives us some guidance and bond council some guidance as to how how fast we need to move. So just you know just kind of bringing you up to date on that. So you don't need an action item. I think uh Dr. Utter could poll you u you know you might want
079to the original the original discussion was around May of 26 and the reason for that was that it gave you planning time to uh to plan the projects and and to address the community with more time. Uh you might remember that the reason that we talked a lot about November of 2025 was because of House Bill Two and other other bills in the legislature that almost made it through that would have allowed school districts and cities and counties to only hold bond elections in November during general election or the general election day. So, they had they were going to scrap uh May of 2025. Uh we have other districts that are going to May because gives them a little bit more breathing room, but it's your call. I just want to clarify that it says
080August 18th and I think I screamed out 17th. So, to clarify, I'm sorry. I I didn't the the to call on a bound if it's in November on August the 18th. August the 18th. I think I screamed out August 17th. I just 14th 14th. Maybe I screamed out 14. I'm just throwing out numbers. It's August. It's August. The middle of August. So August the 13th. It's a Friday. 8:13. 18. Okay. Who's confusing me here? It's up in the August the 18th. Yes. I will refrain from throwing out dates from here on. the the plan has always been has always been for May of 2026. It's never uh it was never intended to be in November. The only reason that we talked about it in November was uh when those uh build uh House Bill 19
081and there was another uh bill that was also on the table that was considering uh bonds to be only November, not in May anymore. But fortunately, both uh bills did not make it through. So, uh, what I'm asking is to go, you know, that we're going to continue with our original plan that we've always had is to, uh, go to May of 2026. It gives us more time to do more studies, uh, you know, do a more complete uh, walkthroughs of facilities, uh, come up with a very detailed, comprehensive report, be able to present to the to the board, to uh, to the facilities forecast committee, also to have town hall meetings. and and so it gives us more ample time to really do a better job in in putting this uh proposal out there
082to the community and and that would be better for us to to continue with our original plan of being of May of 2026 rather than November. And the only reason November was being talked about was because of those two bills that were in the legislative session, but they didn't pass. So, uh, we want to go back to the original plan of of May of 2026. Yeah. Um, just a comment and clarification. So, as I'm looking at the update and the additional information in the slide, it looks as though the current timeline for the report from MGT with an updated refresh of our needs is um would cut it very close uh to August the 18th. And so the benefit of potentially giving ourselves a little bit more time is to ultimately do that to allow
083ourselves more time for deeper conversation with the community um to help them understand what the facilities needs of the district are uh in hopes that they uh see the extent of those needs. That's correct. That's correct. Uh Dr. Utier asked me to to uh address one more item if I may. Uh you posted the tax rate, possible tax rate, and you posted 16 cents for INS. Um you have uh we're waiting for the new values to come out probably towards the end of July. Uh in which will include the $40,000 new exemption on homes. That's going to take quite a bit quite a chunk off of your taxable values. And then uh the comment that I wanted to make is that as a consequence of that uh you may see some pressure down on your
084tax rate later. So you you were good to set a high tax rate and you may see some pressure down on the uh on the amount or the the uh capacity for a bond. How much? We don't know. But you will see some some pressure down simply because every home in the district is going to go $40,000 down and we'll be using some of your fund balance. Very strong fund balance that you have. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. El Santos. I just have one comment real quick and this is more directed at uh everybody that's been a part of the facilities needs assessment and I thank everybody in the community that's been out there. There has been a lot of information given and and given the timeline as Dr. De Los Santos mentioned uh we
085didn't know what the legislature was going to do at the time and so we were trying to cram together at one point to try and get input from the community. What I would like to see, and this is just personally, is if it is something that we decide to do in May to continue what we've started already so that we're not behind the eightball, as they say. You know, we want to continue what and continue building on what we've started already. So, I know there's some timelines here. I'd like to see, for example, the draft report by MGT August 8th, 2025 because this is something that I thought that we were going to get in June. And now it's saying August, but besides the point, I I I do want to see us continue as
086a community and continue to get input on this and to not let any slack uh get put in our line. So, just my comments, but thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Dr. Santos. I would just add that to your point, President Reetta, um, you know, the more time the better for community engagement to understand what the community sees as our needs for our schools in our the district. Thank you, Trist. Okay. Uh, item 10 C4, discussion and possible action on request for proposal number 1043 digital marquee displays rebid Dr. Gut. Uh, administration solicited proposals for digital marquee displays. Uh, M. Scamia, uh, our executive director for technology is available to answer any questions. We are recommending action on this item, and it's a three-part action item. Okay. Go ahead and make
087a motion. You may. I would like to make a motion to approve the ranking of request for proposals number 2025 1043 digital marquee display rebid. Second. I have a motion by trustee Pñena, second by trustee Lagaraa. All in favor? All oppose? Motion passes. 7. Okay. Mr. President, I approve that administration begin negotiations with the highest ranked firm. If the district is unable to negotiate a satisfactory contract with the selected firm, the district shall formally and in writing end negotiations with that firm and proceed to the next firm in the order of the selection ranking until a contract is reached or all signals are rejected. Second. Okay. I have a motion by trustee deaga, second by trustee Pñena. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion passes 70. And um I'd like to move that we authorize
088the superintendent to execute a contract um and once contract negotiations have been successfully achieved. Second. I have a motion by Trusty Pena, second by Trusty Karion. All in favor? I. All oppose. Motion passes 70. All right. 10C5. Discussion and possible action on request for proposal number 202610004 emergency ambulance standby services. Dr. Guutz. Yes. Uh administration solicited proposals for emergency ambulance standby services. We have Miss Lena Garcia, our deputy superintendent uh to answer any questions. And we are recommending action on this item. And this is a three-part uh action item as well. Mr. Chair, I approve the award of request for proposal number 2026-10004 emergency ambulance standby services to Medicare EMS, Inc. for a period of one year commencing on July 1, 2025 with the option to renew for two additional one-year terms. I'll second. I
089have a motion by trustee deagosa, second by trusty pñena. All in favor? I opposed. Motion passes 70. Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion to approve that administration begin negotiations with Medicare EMS Incorporated. If the district is unable to negotiate a satisfactory contract, the district shall formally and in writing in negotiations. Second. Okay. I have a motion by trustee Carion and a second by trustee deleg. All in favor? I oppose. Motion passes 704. Mr. President, I move to approve that I move that the board authorize a superintendent to execute a contract once contract negotiations have been successfully achieved for a period of one year commencing on July 1st, 2025 with the option to renew for two additional one-year terms. Okay, I'll second. Okay, I have a motion by trustee Dr. KDman and a second
090by trustee Hadad. All in favor? All opposed? Motion passes 70. All right. Item 10 C6, discussion and possible action on request for proposal number 202610002, depository banking services. Dr. Administration solicited proposals for depository banking services. Mr. Hy Garcia, our chief financial officer, is available to answer any questions. Administration is recommending action action on this item and this is a three three-part action item as well. Mr. President, I move to approve the ranking of request for proposal number 2026 10002 depository bank services. Okay. I have a motion by trustee PA. And do I have a second? Second. Mr. President, I need to recuse myself from this vote. Okay, Mr. President, I also need to recuse myself from this vote. Okay, for the record, we have trustee Laasa and Trusty Hadad that are recusing themselves for this
091vote. So there will be five of us and I have a current motion by trustee Pan, a second by trustee Karion. All in favor? I Oh, okay. I didn't hear you. All oppose. I Okay. Motion. I'm not. Motion passes. Uh five zero with two abstensions. All right. Uh Mr. President, I move to approve that the administration begin negotiations negotiations with the highest ranked vendor. If the district is unable to rec re to negotiate a satisfactory contract with the selected vendor, the district shall formally and in writing and negotiations with that vendor and proceed to the next firm in the order of the selection ranking until the contract is reached or all submitts are rejected. Okay, have a second. Okay, Mr. President I will also do I have to recuse each item. We've uh for the
092record we have noted the recusal of trustee Leara and trustee Hadad on the topic. So 10 C6 all three items. Thanks. So I have a motion by trustee Pñena and a second by trustee Karion. All in favor? All oppose. Motion passes 502. And and Mr. President, I move to authorize the superintendent to execute a contract once contract negoti negotiations have been successfully achieved for a two-year term beginning July 1st, 2025 and ending June 30th, 2027 with the option to extend by the board of trustees for three additional two-year periods. Okay. Motion by Trusty Pñena. Second, and second by trustee KDman. All in favor? I. All oppose. Motion passes. 502. I need to figure out what to call you, Lizzie, because I get confused. Trusty Kman, trustee Dr. Dr. Trustee. Tendee. Board of Trustee items. Approval
093of Board of Education meeting minutes. Board workshop June 5th, 2025, 9:30 a.m. Board workshop June 9th, 2025, 5:30 p.m. And regular board meeting June 10th, 2025, 5:30 p.m. And I have a motion to approve by trustee Delgato. Second. And a second by trustee FA. All in favor? I. I. All oppose. Motion passes 70. Okay. 10D2 discussion and possible consideration of endorsement of candidate for Texas Association of School Boards TASBY Board of Directors Region One Position B. And All right. Do we have a presenter? This is on me. So I believe we have in your packets that you were given there was uh information given and the as a board we can choose to endorse a candidate for the TASBY board of directors region 1B position. Um Dr. We do have Dr. Sylvia Sanchez Garasa who
094has um requested the Macau ISD uh to endorse her for this position. I move that we table this item until after executive. Okay. All right. I have a motion to table by Okay. I'll take it and a second by Trusty Pñena. All in favor? I oppose. Motion table passes. 7. All right. 11. Recess to close session. Board of trustees may go into close session pursuing to section 551.071, 551.072, 551.074, 551.076, and 551.089 of the Texas Government Code to discuss the following. 11 A, human resources recommendations for school year 202526. 11 B discussion of human resources employee resignations and retirees for school year 2425. 11 C discussion of human resources employee resignations and retirees for school year 2526. 11 Discussion of the resolution by the board of trustees of the Macau Independent School District to grant
095the superintendent to uh authority to hire teachers. 11E, discussion of recommendation for principal at Woodro Wilson Elementary for 2526. 11F, discussion regarding school safety and security. 11G, pending and or potential litigation. 11H, possible real estate acquisition. At 657, we are going into close session. Thank you. All right. We are back in open session 7:42. Item number 13, action on items in close session 13A, discussion and possible action of human resources recommendations for school year 202526. Move to approve. Second. I have a motion by trustee Pñena and a second by trustee deagasa. All of those in favor I opposed. Motion passes 6. 13B. Discussion of human resources employee resignations and retirees for school year 202425. Human resources submitted a list of resignations and retirees for the 2425 school year under a separate cover that was discussed
096during close session. And this item is for information purposes only. Thank you. Item 13 C, discussion of human resources employee resignation and retirees for school year 2526. Uh, human resources submitted a list of resignations and retirees for the 2526 school year under a separate cover that was discussed in close session and this item is also for information purposes only. Thank you. Uh, 13D. discussion and possible action on the resolution by the board of trustees of the Macau Independent School District to grant the superintendent authority to hire um staff. Staff yes, Dr. Gutierz, as per DC legal, the board may delegate final authority for those decisions to the superintendent. Administration recommends that the board of trustees of the Macallen Independent School District grant the superintendent authority to hire staff. Administration is recommending action on this item.
097Approve Second. Okay. I have a motion by trustee and a second by trustee Hadad. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion passes 6. And 13E. Discussion and possible action of recommendation for principal at Woodro Wilson Elementary for 2526. This uh yes for principal for Wilson Elementary. The administration recommends Miss Rebecca Chasareta. Move to approve. Second. I have a motion by Trusted Ala and a second by Trusty Carion. All those in favor? I I oppose. Motion passes 60. Congratulations. Uh Mr. President, um I'd like to bring item 10 D2 back from table. Yes, sir. Item 10 D2. I'll second that motion. Okay. We have a motion to bring back uh to the table by Trusty Cion, a second by Trustee Pñena. All those in favor? Opposed? Okay. Item 10D2. Motion passes. 6. Um 10D2. discussion and
098possible consideration of endorsement of candidate for Texas Association of School Board Board of Directors Region One Position B. Um, we do have a candidate here, okay, so Dr. Sylvia Sanchez Gara has requested for the Macauan ISD board to endorse her for this position and I believe everybody has the endorsement has received that. So, do I have a motion? I move to endorse Dr. Sylvio Santes Garza for U TASBY board of directors region one position B. I second. Okay. I have a motion by trustee Hadad and a second by trustee Pñena to uh endorse Dr. Sylvia Sanchez Garca. All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion passes 6. All right. And we're on to 13F. 13F. Discussion regarding school safety and security. Nothing to report. Pending and or potential litigation? None. Possible real estate acquisition. Same announcement.
099Thank you, sir. And item 14. Move to adjourn. All right. Second. I have a motion by Trusty Pña, second by Trusty Aad. All those in favor? All oppose? Motion passes. I Okay. No, we're adjourned at 7:47. Everybody enjoys their break and we're looking forward to I just want to say a big