001e e e a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Mallen Independent School District will be held Tuesday February 25th 2 beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Dr Ricardo Chapa boardroom administration building of the Mallen Independent School District 2200 North 23rd Street Mallen Texas 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 one time at this meeting there may be discussion and action by the board on the items and subjects listed as follows one call the meeting to do to order I have done so at 5:30 p.m. right now if you would please join us in a moment of silence thank you item number three Pledge of
002Allegiance please stand 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 students get faster and faster at that pledge every time item number four public comments we do have one person signed up for public comments um m Dolly Ramon if you would approach there's a quick little video and then but you can come up to the podium already 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 mcallenisd.org at least 1 hour prior to the start of the scheduled meeting number two an individual's comments to the board shall not exceed 2 minutes per meeting number three
003the board shall not tolerate disruption of the meeting by members of the audience thank you gracias okay Mr the U you'll have two minutes and the timer will be on there we will not interrupt you so whenever you're ready we will'll start thank you good evening my name is Dolly Ramone and I am the academic coach at Gonzalez Elementary and I'm here today to talk about the 2526 Academic School calendar as a 25-year veteran of the district I've sat on numerous committees including lead uh which is an Advisory Board to the superintendent and as a member and a current chair I've had the honor and privilege of sitting on the calendar committee for the last three years however um this has um this has been an unprecedented year in which the guidelines in which we
004operate in my opinion have been defied our task to create three calendars began in November of 2024 with numerous meetings countless hours of research a district survey and a presentation to our general lead assembly who after much discussion voted on the final three calendars that were part of the election which ended on February 17th in the process however we were asked to reconvene as a committee because the board was requesting that we consider having all federal holidays off um and other suggestions but in reviewing that request it was noted that we had given the majority of federal holidays off except MLK and Veterans Day our reasoning was that Veterans Day next year falls in the middle of the week which would impact our attendance nonetheless we did our due diligence to consider the recommendations and
005made MLK an option to be off two out of the three calendars however we were called back again but this time we were presented with two brand new calendars and we were asked to choose one for a runoff election which is unjust this calendar was not created by the calendar committee had no consideration for the results of the survey and as a matter of fact won against the top three most important holidays according to our survey to make matters worse we have no idea who created the calendar they did not provide the community feedback they said these calendars were based on and although we unanimously agreed as a committee that neither calendar should be brought to a vote we were informed late this afternoon that one of these calendars created by the powers that be
006will move forward in a second calendar election my question to you is how do you have a runoff with a calendar that was never in the running to begin with and why were we not being transparent about who created these calendars especially when we are the calendar committee thank you Mr Man before I move on to item five I'd like to welcome a group from leadership Mallen joining us today if y'all were just kind of wait oh it's a bunch Welcome to our meeting and I hope that you learn a lot today all right item number five superintendent reports item a HB honors two teachers in state Awards Dr Gutierrez yes madame president and Board of Trustees uh last week the HB grocery chain sent a team to surprise two of our teachers who have
007been named State finalist in the HB excellence and education Awards in this first video they surprised Miss n Vidal an English teacher at Memorial High School and we have the video to present to you all go ahead I was completely caught off guard with the best surprise ever just a knock on the door and then you folks all walked in and told me that I I'm a finalist for this uh for the HB Excellence of for my category which is just incredible unexpected absolutely unexpected one of the things that we love about her is she's very collaborative with the kids and she just loves people and you can tell because the kids really gravitate to her to be recognized and acknowledged in this way is very special and also in front of all my kids
008I just told them that it's so cool that they were here to share that with me so it's an amazing experience just unbelievable very nice um Item B I'm sorry that was two of them we also have another video because we have another teacher uh who was also surprised by the ATB team uh she she is from Kathy Middle School she's the orchestra director Christina Martinez and can you show the video on this one had a a surprise visit today uh for one of our amazing teachers Miss Mar who is our Orchestra director and she is one of the finalists for the HP Excellence award so everybody show out today and we just went to her classroom and surprised her I I got a little emotional it's I guess when I think of this award
009and you know they try to recognize teachers that go above and beyond and and I just felt like this it's just part of you know it's just what I do I don't think of it as I just try to do everything I can for the kids how you feeling amazing just at a l for Words uh just to think of it was just so overwhelming and I was just filled with joy but you know for me it's like this is just what I need to do for our kids and for our kids to be successful and I think every educator thinks that way as well to be part of Cathy what Cathy stands for and have the amazing uh staff that we have uh every Department right and every uh you know student that comes
010in here comes in with a lot of Pride our community is amazing so just just proud overall to be here congratulations to both teachers and they will be go into the finals the first weekend in May very good congratulations to both um item AB a local TV station presented a Golden Apple award to a teacher Dr W yes the TV station CBS channel 4 and Valley central.com present a golden Apple award each month to outstanding teachers in the real Grande Valley last week they honored Mrs Kerrie adame band director at theone middle school and we also have a video on this go ahead today we got a visit from cbs4 news23 and so uh they came to award one of our teachers our band director for this excellence in teachers so our teacher's name is
011Mrs car adame and what I can tell you about her is that she Champions kids you know she helps uh build their academic uh fortitude right and she just cares about how they do academically but on top of that she also builds uh and creates just nurtures you know skilled musicians highly skill musicians that perform at the highest level m is a really fun teacher really funny she has like the sense of humor which is amazing I look forward going into her class every day she gives me a reason to come to school and why to try and ban playing music I enjoy it so much I love playing the Melody I love the sound like the songs that they make us play I just love everything about band I thought it was because I
012was being observed by one of the assistant principals and um it turns out that uh everyone walked in and surprised me and I got the uh Channel 4 Golden Apple Golden Apple award what an honor this is I looked up and I saw my brother my husband my my best friend um my grand my grandsons and my my son and my daughter-in-law U wow I was just I was just floored by what when all these people walked into the room it very surprising very overwhelming and and it just my heart was was full my heart was full was [Music] great congratulations to miss on that award item number six notice of a public meeting and notice of proposed contract for Legal Services Under Texas government code 2254 1036 Dr ues yes uh notice is hereby
013given for the purpose of considering and taking action on all matters on the agenda for the meeting including approval of an agreement with the law firms of oh handen demarra and Castillo PC and Island and bonon PC a special Council to perform all legal services necessary to recover damages sustained by the district related to youth social media usage and any other action that may be necessary to pursue the best interest of the district in related litigation on a contingent fee basis Mr John Ball our staff attorney is available to answer any questions on this matter John can you um Mr ball I'm sorry can you give us a little more insight on why it is that this firm that we're retaining is then going to send it out to another firm multiple reasons they have
014an agreement number one with this other firm the other firm is I understand it is also one of the lead litigators uh is involved in it what their contract is between the two of them I don't know I didn't get in to to any of that with the ohanlan folks it just seems like if Ohan and's going to get a some money for work they didn't do why wouldn't we just contract directly with the firm that's doing the work we certainly could however I have not spoken to anyone from that firm the folks that I have been in contact with have all been folks through o handling and from what I have seen and doing my homework on this is that this has been for whatever it's worth the standard practice for many of the
015other districts locally that they are going to be the local firm that we are in contact with and then there will be a second firm that's also going to be involved that I think is going to be based out of uh or handling most of litigation out of California for the multi for the mdl multi District litigation and ohin do mdl work I did not ask for resumés or to get credentials on whether they do or not I would find it hard to believe that they don't but I don't know okay I didn't get that far into the specifics with them my the research that I did the topics that I was looking into was number one more of what the litigation was about so I went on to the website and that's in fact
016what this is It's the petition and the documents that are on file in the mdl litigation in California so um the due diligence that I was doing was to really more gear towards what we would be getting out of it in terms of our us as a district if we hire them what our potential return would be why we're getting involved in it what the basis for the litigation is that was the stuff that I was more focused on and did we reach out to ohanlan or did Ohan and reach out to us they reached out to us uh because they have a group of districts uh from the state of Texas that they're representing several districts have already joined in if I'm not mistaken I believe that they're representing the districts in Texas and
017perhaps the other one is representing districts from California but it's a joint effort between uh districts in California Texas that they're representing uh ohland here the several districts from Texas I know Houston Austin um a couple of others have already joined in uh into this lawsuit and and they were asking they've been asking other districts also to if they want to join in the problem I'm having is I don't know what experience ohin Hut has number one with mdl and number two why they would come to us asking for work it just seems a little strange when we weren't the ones asking for help on something that's what I'm questioning so couple of thoughts on that I've spoken to several well to Mr Castillo and to Mr ohanlan and part of the idea was we
018put this on because we put this on the agenda is because the mdl group it's not a class action right but there is going to be a point in time when that group is going to get closed and I think that from what I understand we're getting close in time to that on standby for whatever it's worth so that some of these questions can be answered ohanlan and those folks are in the wings and that was something that we can do in executive if you have more of those questions the public meeting Port if you want to get more into to that aspect of it and they would be the ones that' be able to answer it okay if you have is someone from ohland available to answer that I have them available if you
019want to talk to them they are on standby thank you sure for just for the sake of the community because um they may not understand what this is if we can just get in a brief nutshell what the uh what the little law what the lawsuit is and just kind of so we understand why uh we're discussing this today so there are states that are involved and then there are as litigators and then there are private law firms that are also involved so there are attorney generals that have filed suit and it looks that there are also private uh law firms that have filed suit the law suits have been Consolidated because they're across the country they've been Consolidated into the Northern District of California if you go back in time everybody probably remembers when
020the uh tobacco companies ended up being sued and the premise behind why the tobacco companies were being sued is that uh they were creating a product that was being marketed that was defective and the reason they said it was defective is that the product was being manipulated in such a way to be marketed number one towards adolescence but number two they were marketing it in such a way to increase the nicotine level so that people would become more addicted and that came about because the tobacco companies themselves uh actually did the in-house research that said this is how to go about marketing it so that we can maintain our constit our uh our our our folks that are going to be the next Generation coming up and everybody's familiar with Joe Camel and all of
021those folks um the old school cigarette machines where you put the the nickels and the quarters in there that was all part of a an overall plan to be able to continue having people be addicted to cigarettes um it appears and I'm far from an expert on it and I will tell you that the original the second amended original petition is almost 300 pages and I have read it and it cites um in excess of a thousand footnotes so I'm far from being an expert on it but I'll will tell you is this it looks to be that the allegations are that they're saying big Tech and I'll use that as a general term to talk about um Facebook Tik Tok looks I believe uh Instagram which would be covered under uh Meadow which is
022Facebook uh and then one other company as well is involved in it that those companies themselves had done their own internal research their own internal studies and they had taken a PL a page out of the Playbook of big tobacco and they were creating a product in this case the social media apps that instead of pushing um higher doses of nicotine are instead pushing higher doses of dopamine to the extent that a child gets into what I think they refer to as a scroll state they're geared towards inducing children to be into scroll States so that they stay glued to their phones they keep in that state where they keep scrolling through it rewards them through various uh types of trophies through incentives um through forcing them to know whether or not their friend has
023actually opened the message has their friend read it so it forces them to uh continue engaging to continue reading it to continue getting that dopamine fix that it provides them to look at it and so the overall scheme as best I can tell is that they are taking a page from the litigators that sued big tobacco and they're basically saying now we're going to sue you because you have created in essence what is no longer a physical cigarette but a digital cigarette and you've created a problem where kids now the the number two leading killer of adolescence is suicide and there seems to be direct correlations between the amount of social media use that a uh child has and their mental health I don't think that's open for debate anymore so I don't know if
024that's going too far into the weeds for the short explanation that you wanted but that is basically it in a nutshell it is no longer they're not saying we're going after tobacco companies anymore for causing lung cancer they're going after tech companies now for causing suicide depression and anxiety in the adolesence that they're targeting and the idea here is that we as a district will be able to recoup X number of dollars per student in our district for the money that we have had to expend to either have counselors uh on our staff treat them or to refer them out to other folks on taxpayer dime um as opposed to these companies paying it themselves that's it in a nutshell to address your concerns I don't know what their contractual arrangements are between oh Handlin
025and the other firms that are handling it I could only speak to what this is here thank you m thank you Mr ball anything else we'll have a chance to talk about um any other questions maybe more specific legal during close right 100% okay sure thank you but I'm also if you have questions and I can answer them that relate to the litigation or relate to the paperwork that's already on file in the litigation that I reviewed I'm happy to answer that here in in Open Session to the extent that you want to debate what the the pros and cons of it and the U some of the more legal issues I think that would be better suited for a Clos session okay so we don't need to take action at this m no not
026thank you Mr ball is it just school districts public school districts or is it universities is it is it I mean so the money that if we win and we come into some money that would go to our counseling department right so how are other plaintiffs I mean is it just school districts everything that I have seen that I'm familiar with is school districts however there are states attorney generals that have also gotten involved that have themselves they are filing suits on behalf of the states so I that that's a whole separate so the there there's multiple Master complaints that you have to go through and there hundreds if not thousands of pages of documents the one that I'm focused on right now is the the one that we would be joining relates to the
027school districts that would be we would be getting the ones that relate to the attorney generals I haven't read through those but I have to believe they would mirror the same information that the private entities are going after the private entities meaning the private law firms that are doing the suing as opposed to the attorney generals that are doing the suing thank you so much good just good okay thank you so much um we will move on to item seven proclamations 7A discussion and possible action to adopt the proclamation regarding National cerebral py awareness month which is uh March 2025 Dr ues in recognition and awareness of individuals with cable policy we take time to spread awareness and we affirm the fundamental principle that individuals with sural policy are entitled to the same rights and
028freedoms as everyone else to belong and fully participate in society to believe in with respect and free of discrimination Mrs marel elisondo executive director of for special education will share more information and truste Debbie cran Alisa will read the proclamation Administration is recommending action on this item so moved second I have a motion by trusty Alisa and a second by trusty Regal all those in favor signify by saying I I all those opposed signify by saying nay motion passes 60 trusty Alisa would you like to read that or are we going kid bringing in the kids first bring in give us a second yes good evening um I would like to take the time to uh introduce some of our students with Mallen ISD with cerebral paly and uh recognition of cereal py month and
029bringing awareness we have Marcy Gia second grade student at sigen elementary escorted by georgana goodlet coordinator for special education we also have Maria Fernanda Sosa from sigin Elementary second grade student escorted by Jack gilen Espinosa coordinator for special education Miss Bellin zetus from Morris Middle School seventh grade and then we have Miss Jay Gully intern support staff for strides at achieve early college high school and Miss Carla Barnett coordinator for special education you we'll have everybody look at this camera right here [Music] onebody [Music] I'll go ahead and read the proclamation while you're taking the pictures whereas March is National cereal py Awareness Month cerebal py is a neurological condition that affects muscle function and control currently worldwide there are approximately 17 million people living with cereal pulsy is a lifelong condition to which there
030is no cure and whereas a cereal py organization is formed to ensure equal rights accessibility and opportunities for those living with Cal ply as well as access to resources that would improve an individual's quality of life now therefore I Debbie CR said member of the Board of Trustees of the mcgall impendent school district to hereby proclaim the month of March 2025 as National cerebral pulsy Awareness Month in witness whereof I he un to set my hand and cause the still Mall Independent School District to be a fixed on this 25th day of February 2025 and it is attested to by trustee Eric delagar or Lopez [Music] student intern J bye Jay nice picture yeah that's great right we move on to item eight the consent agenda I need a motion for items I have a
031motion by trusty Alisa and a second by trusty Riva all those in favor signify by saying I all those opposed signify by saying nay motion carries 60 item number nine instructional Services instructional leadership Human Resources business and operations and Board of Trustees items 9A instructional Services A1 discussion and possible action on 2025 school summer school programs item submitted by Dr deos Dres summer school programs provide opportunities for students to enrich and or recover academic skills from prekinder through 12th grade Dr cyth olivades our director for state and federal programs will have more information on this item Administration is also recommending action on this item but go ahead Dr olivaris good evening uh Board of Trustees and superintendent Gutierrez I'm going to um present to you a a brief presentation about our summer school program for
032summer 2025 which sounds very futuristic to me but it is 2025 so um as Dr as mentioned our summer school program really the purpose of that is to provide um remediation for our students in 3rd through 12th which are our star grade levels and enrichment opportunities for all students from K to 12 um the start date is Monday June 9th and the end date is Friday June 27th that's 15 days Monday through Friday and it runs from 8 to 12:30 and that does include um a lunchtime and at the bottom you'll see there that the bilingual program um they're required to have a 16-day summer program so they'll be in their program June 6th um and we can see that in the next slide this is just a visual of the calendar so you'll notice
033um we've got the start date on the 9th so that would give the high schools 10 days of star prep so that the students could prepare for the summer star Administration um the testing window for summer star does run from June 17th to June 27th but we didn't want to cut that time short for them so we did want to allow them for two weeks so um the assessment office um and Dr Theos did look at that and so we're going to test the last week of June the sites for summer school uh 2025 the elementary campuses we're using the same format we did last year which will we have three sites and we cluster um our campuses so this year we will have six campuses um per site and so we'll have escandon which
034is typically our school because of the rdspd program um and the fact that they're close to to the expressway so that's always a site and then we've got Jackson Elementary um they're a large campus they're one of our older campuses but they have a lot of classrooms and they can accommodate um a good group and then we've got mcalla ele as well um at the middle school we're going to go with the Leon Middle School they have lots of great parking and the high schools will do the traditional the three Comprehensive High Schools as well as Achi Early College um high school at achieve we will be having our STC dual enrollment uh courses which is something we started last summer it was really successful had a lot of great um lots of opportunity for
035students we had about 300 students so we're going to do that one again that will all be housed at um at cheve early college and then at the nevado parent Center we do have our migrant summer program as well well as our parent summer classes and Child Care Program macf fund Zone this is our partnership with the city um this typically um we we usually have five locations for it but we always would have two two campuses which was vium and Ales and then um whatever it the three summer school sites we decided this year to do to separate the sites u macf fun from the elementary summer school s sites uh we had some confusion we had some um there was a lot of responsibility put on on the summer school director um and
036our program ends at 12:30 but this program runs the full day so we are going to look to have five different sites for that this summer as mentioned uh daily meals and transportation will be provided of course our MD Child Nutrition department will provide breakfast and lunch for all students at each summer site and they'll also be providing meals at the mech fund sites Transportation um our transportation department will be providing Transportation um to all the summer school sites they do pick up and drop off from the students um home campus every day and so children are are afforded that transportation and then this is our summer um school program uh pay rates these pay rates were not adjusted for this summer they were adjusted last summer um and so they are we're following the
037same pay rates that we had last year and we do have we have two columns we have the the remediation pay rate and then we've got um a different pay rate for the enrichment programs and that is it any questions thank you very much um I need a motion on this I have a motion by trusty and a second by trusty deara Lopez all those in favor signified by saying I all those opposed signifi by saying nay motion passes 60 thank you thank you good good item uh 9B Human Resources items 9b1 report regarding the me Education Foundation um Dr mallan Education Foundation provides support to help Foster excellence and enhance educational opportunities for students in Mallen ISD they held their annual uh their third annual uh MEF bowling tournament this past Saturday we have
038a short video of that event and we also have some representatives of the mallan Education Foundation uh that they would like to share more information if you could come to the podium and introduce yourselves and tell us more about it it was a great event and uh we had a lot of fun and we raised a lot of money for our classrooms hello yes Christine's up here hello Madam president Board of Trustees Dr Gutierrez uh my name is Jamie Brown Rosas and this is my friend and colleague Christine Wallace and we're up here representing the Mallen Education Foundation um for those who don't know the Mallen Education Foundation has been around for about 30 years now we're comprised of a group of um community and Business Leaders who have a passion for the district uh
039have students here in the district and really just believe in our students our teachers our district leaders and um we carry out two initiatives one is our Innovative teaching grant program and the other one is our very exciting U bowling tournament the funds raised from the bowling tournament go to fund the teach Innovative teacher Grant programs we were able to uh award over um 50 grants this year thank you see that's why that's why christines here it was 71 yeah 71 71 grants uh this year so it was very very exciting um but we are here to share a little bit about the the bowling tournament so this was our third annual Mallen education bowling tournament it happened last uh Saturday evening we um took over Flamingo Bowl completely um everything benefiting Mel and ISD
040we were able to to raise $191,000 so if anyone's ever been involved in fundraising for a bowling tournament that's that's Rockstar level I think um all 31 of our campuses plus District departments had a team all of our principles were present that was exciting um so we also had um our special education department Department of Technology human resources and business services some of our trustees were there as well so we appreciate your support um do you want to list the winners yes yes okay Elementary first place was es condone second place was mym and third was moli second secondary okay secondary first place M um maai Second Place Travis and third place Brown Middle School yes so so we divided our um our schools into two categories Elementary and secondary um this year we included
041Rock and bll so we had fun music glow-in-the Dark we had the bracelets the the sunglasses all the fun stuff so um we also want to give a special shout out to our sponsors um our top sponsor was HB coming in with $50,000 um at the $10,000 level we had commissioner Eddie canu and Vantage Bank um and we also want to uh thank the following sponsors who gave $5,000 that's ruby red Hospitality Dump store of real Grand Valley Valiant energy source LLC C Atlas Hall and Rodriguez Charlie Clark Nissan uh Driscoll Children's Hospital real grand Regional hospital um Noble construction we had about 30 plus sponsors all in all um also want to thank our district and our district leaders for all of your support special shout out to the marketing department the team over
042there who is is helping us cover all of this and they work in late into the night and so and also she is woman a few words but Christine pretty much made all of this happen yes we had a great team but I mean she was up late answering texts emails making it all happen walking in with the boxes of stuff putting everything together so it was great we look forward to next year thank you anything else thank you thank you Mallen Education Foundation um I got I went to the bowling tournament I had to leave early but my goodness it looked amazing with all the glow stuff and I think everybody had a blast it was my social media the next day was all Mallen Education Foundation bowling tournament super fun thank you so
043much for all the countless hours that yall put in because it's not just for the bowling tournament year round y'all are so committed to the district and um we appreciate everything you do especially the grants for the teachers that's where the Innovation gets to happen and so thank you so very much I don't know if anybody else has something to say but so grateful thank you super grateful well because because have the floor and we needed a photographer to share with our team I brought my mom to take pictures hi Miss Dora actually one of not the original Foundation M but she was on the found back in the thanks M Dora thank you thank you thank you thank you so very much I do want to say that if I may uh the mallan
044Education Foundation all the members thank you so much because they meet ly and uh and they do so much for our school district to partner with us they put in a lot of their own time uh to do this for our students for our teachers and they take a lot of time from their families and from things that they could do somewhere else but instead they're spending a lot of time uh working with us uh with my staff uh working with our principes our campuses and and trying to see how we can uh provide better services for our students provide uh opportunities for our teachers to apply for those grants to improve instruction to enhance more instruction in the classroom so you all are just like our board members you putting a lot of time
045for our district and I want to recognize that to everyone that all our uh Mallen Education Foundation uh committee members uh put in as much time as our board members for our school district and I want to thank you so much for that thank you guys yeah do do we have a video or is that cuz I don't know if did that play yeah let's play it [Music] we're excited to be here today the day is finally here it is Mallen education foundation's third annual bowling tournament every school in Mallen ISD represented today so we have about 39 Lanes uh including not just the schools but also we have some departments that are here as well so that's very exciting we also had um numerous sponsors a lot of people in the community came through
046for the foundation came through for teachers came through for the District in order to uh support our teachers because this is a fun day it is you'll see a lot of excitement you're going to see people jumping up and down when they hit those strikes and those spares But ultimately the most exciting thing here is that we are raising money for our Innovative teaching grants uh and these are grants that we award to teachers who really like to think out of the box they know that their students don't just have one way of learning and uh they know that they have to approach them differently right and so every student is different and it's just exciting that we have teachers that know that and try to make learning a lot more fun for them so
047good you could really tell how competitive everybody was there item 9 C Business and operations we have nothing under there 9d Board of Trustees items 9 D1 approval of Board of Education minutes 91a regular board meeting February 11 2025 do I have a motion to approve some Mo I have a motion by trusty Alisa and a second by trusty Regal all those in favor signify by saying I I all those opposed signify by saying nay motion passes [Music] 60 item 10 recess to close session Board of Trustees may go into Clos session pursuant to section 551.071 55 1.07 2551 .74 55107 6 and 5518 n Texas government code to discuss the following 10A Human Resources recommendations for school year 2024 2025 10B discussion of human resources employee resignations and retirees for year 2024 2025 10c
048discussion uh participation in multi-district litigation involving youth social media usage and related litigation and entering into a contingency fee contract with ohen diath and Castillo PC and Ellen and Bonin PC to represent the district Texas government code 551.071 10d discussion and regarding School Safety and Security 10e pending Andor potential litigation and 10f possible real estate acquisition at 6:14 p.m. we are in closed session and we'll be back e e e at 8 :32 p.m. we are back in Open Session item 12 action on closed item section session session items 12a discussion and possible action of Human Resources recommendations for school year 2024 2025 DRZ Human Resources submitted a list of recommendations for the 2024 2025 school year under a separate cover for discussion during close session Administration is recommending action on this item second I
049have a motion by trusty Regal and a second by trusty deara Lopez all those in favor signify by saying I all those opposed signify by saying a motion passes 60 item 12b discussion of human resources employee resignations and retirees for school year 2024 2025 DRZ Human Resources submitted a list of resignations and retirees for the 2024 2025 school year under a separate cover for discussion during close session this item is for information purposes only thank you very much item 12C discussion and possible action of consideration and Adoption of resolution approving contingent fee legal service contract including findings needed for submission of contingent legal fee Services agreement and request for expedited review by the Texas Attorney General Dres the adoption of this resolution with yanan demare and Castillo PC and Island and bonan PC is needed
050to execute this agreement Mr ball will be available to answer any questions if necessary we don't need any action on that Mr ball it's a discussion possible yeah we need action need an action to approve second of the resolution pres I move to approve second I have a motion by trusty Riva and I second by trusty dear Lopez all those in favor signify by saying I all those opposed signify by say nay motion passes 6 Z item 12d discussion of possible action of consideration and Adoption of contingent fee uh legal service agreement with Ohan deth and Castillo PC and Island and Bon and PC Dres this Professional Services agreement Pro uh provides for Legal Services by ohland deth and Castillo PC and Island and bonon PC to melen ISD and we're recommending action on this
051item correct Madam president mve to second I have a motion by trusty Rivera and a second by trusty deara Lopez all those in favor signify by saying I I I all those opposed signify by saying nay nay motion passes 51 and um 12E discussion regarding School Safety and Security no action taken item 12 F pending and potential litigation Mr ball nothing to report item 12 G possible real estate acquis same announcement I need a oh item 13 scheduled [Music] meetings 13A special board meeting student recognitions February 27th 5:30 p.m at the auditorium at Mallen High School item 13B board Workshop budget Workshop number two March 4th 2025 at 5:30 p.m. at the Dr choa boardroom administration building item 13 C regular board meeting March 11 2025 5:30 p.m. at the Dr Ricardo Chapa boardroom administration
052building item 13d special board meeting student recognitions March 27th 2025 at 5:30 p.m. at the Mallen High School auditorium folks I need a motion to adjourn oh president um P though on the board Workshop maybe the location might be changing though if the location changes I guess we will update uh update it as necessary we may consider the professional development center or the UT RGB campus okay thank ex yeah it's exciting let's change the scenery I have a motion by trusty Regal to adjourn and a second by trusty Alisa all those in favor signify by saying I I all those poos signifi by same name motion passes 60 at 8:36 p.m. we are adjourned e e e