001the 7th day of May, 2025. I call this special call meeting of the United Independent School District Board of Trustees to order. May the trustees present please announce themselves for the record. Bruno Jun present. Gilbert present present. Let the record show that a quorum of board members is present, that this meeting has been duly called, and that notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act. Agenda item number two, 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. I pledge to the Texas one state one and indivisible. Agenda item number three, public comments. We do not have any public comments. Agenda item number four, items for individual consideration,
002discussion and possible action to approve employment contracts and addendums for professional employees for the 2025 to 2026 school work. Is there a motion to approve? Uh Mr. Uh good afternoon ladies and gentlemen board members and uh committee members in the audience. It's time for us to go ahead and uh we're re we're asking the board to approve the following names. Uh if you want to go ahead and click we have all these names that we have for contract approval. And you have the list I think you have there. These are the ones that were vetted out for this coming year. These are all the employees. These are all employees that And of course these these do not include the continuing contract people. They it's perpetual until they leave us. these are like teacher these are
003non these include non-certified probationary term. These are everybody including us teachers and the non-certified those are the teachers DOI teachers things like that but you all are uh providing opportunity for them to become certified correct within the time period okay you all are providing education resources you're working with them correct in fact we uh with the board's approval we did uh have an RFP where we have a third party provider that we've been throughout the years, well the last two years that we've been uh providing them uh basically in service for them professional development where we they've come in in person as well as virtual depending on their schedule. It's like a hybrid model and we've been providing them support. We even gave them a homework day. I don't know if you heard about that.
004Dr. Puce allowed it where we had them come in. They did their modules for the ACP program and we had almost 60 plus uh teachers that came in at Brandy Hall and they did homework that day and they were very grateful because there's just so many modules they have to do. And I know that you all are also working with this uh special ed department, right? To make sure that they're certified and you all are doing even Saturday uh trainings, correct? We are doing everything possible. We are doing uh the bilingual department. Uh special ed department, our third party providers also doing it. Uh professional development. Uh some of our principles are even giving time for them at campus to work on their modules. I mean, we're we're all hands on deck trying to help
005our our teachers. Perfect. And let's just say there's somebody who's not certified, who's afraid, right, per se, of of losing their job. They're able to reach out to you to ask for help. The door is open. Correct. All the time. We've done that. We've done that for the last two years. Uh there are conditions. Just so you know, our DOI has a limit. Uh and so we do counsel them, we do encourage them, uh we we motivate them, but at the end of the day, it's up to the teacher to decide. That's why we partition time throughout the school day to uh to give them time because we know the biggest enemy for them is time. Uh by the time they get home they they start their second job which is taking care of children,
006you know, cooking, homework. So we recognize that. How many contracts do you have? We have a total of about uh 3,16 for the record is also approved. Motion to approve these motion. Second motion in the second. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. Thank you. Agenda item number five, close session. Time is currently 12:07 p.m. according to Texas government code section 551.071. 072 and 074. The board will discuss items 5A, 5T, 5B. No action will be taken in close session. All right. Um, the board has reconvened to close session. We are now in open session. The time is 10:03 p.m. For the record, no action was taken in close session. Agenda item 6A possible action regarding proposed renewal non-renewal of classroom teacher coaches term contract designate designation of board appointed attorney
007to conduct non-renewal hearing and authorization of the superintendent to send notice of the same to the affected employee recommendations. Yes. Members of the board, I'm recommending to propose a non-renewal of classroom teacher and coach Christopher Alonso's term contract of employment to designate attorney Julia Rubio to conduct the non-renewal hearing and to authorize me to send notice of the same to the affected employee Christopher Arnos. Second. There's a motion second. There's a second. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion passes. Uh item seven 104. Hello