001children. That's good enough. Yeah, he's The time is now 6:31 p.m. I'd like to thank everyone for being here in person and those who are watching our meeting. This is a regular board meeting of the Alison School District for Monday, August 11, 2025. I'm going to call the agenda. A regular board meeting of the board of trustees of the Alice independent school district will be held at the Almin building board room number two trial Alex Tyson 78332. I'm now calling this to order. I will call a role to establish a quorum. Present today is Dr. Aniah, superintendent of schools. Myself, Jennifer Beda, the president of school board. Mr. Herman Aiano the vice president of the school board not present at this time is Mr. Suda Saba the secretary present is Mr. Adrien Beña trustee present
002is Mr. Dea trustee present is Mr. K reustee and present is Mr. So at this time we have a next we have a pledge of allegiance. >> This evening we have Enrique Ricky Garcia the fourth son of Margo and Enrique Garcia who will be leading us in the pledge with Alexis Faras the daughter of Bena Ala. algiance 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 alliance to the Texas one and indivisible. Thank you very much. Before we start, uh rest of the meeting. I just want to say it's the first day of school and thank you to Dr. Tino and everyone here, the admin, the teachers, parents, students, and we're very happy that we started off
003the year right. So, thank you, Dr. Tino. Next, we're going to recommend and approve the board minutes. Item 4 A, minutes of the regular board meeting on July 21st, 2025. And for B, the minutes of the specially followed budget workshop July 24th of 2025. There a motion at this time to approve as read. >> I make a motion. >> We have a motion by Mr. Theino and a second by Mr. Oh, I'm sorry. I have one and a second by Mr. >> I'll second. All in favor. Motion passes. On to item number five, public comment. We have no one signed up for public comment at this time. On to item number six on the agenda, the superintendence report. Dr. >> Thank you, Madam President, members of the board, members of the audience. As mentioned by
004uh Miss Baretta, welcome back and welcome everyone to the 2526 school year. We're excited to have everyone back. Our enrollment today was 4,073 students. We are at 57 students shy of where we were last year on the first day. We want to make sure that all the students that did not come today to school to please come uh to school tomorrow. As an announcement, I would also like to say that we began implementing House Bill 1481. And I want to thank the high school staff as well as the middle school staff in particular because they were implementing it and making sure that Alice is D was following the law. Uh I know that I called both principles and Miss Fettis told me at WS they were rocking it and that everything was uh well in
005place. They had no issues. The teachers reviewed the policy and at lunch her staff also reviewed the expectations and spoke to the students and so they started the year really really well. At the high school spoke to Dr. Kubala and as well they've been communicating with the students. They had collected about 18 phones during lunch uh and before lunch. So not too bad. uh some students did not have a backpack and so she's making arrangements to help those students out that did not have a backpack with them to store the device. And some students did pull it out at lunch, but we're very happy to announce that they were very compliant in uh allowing the administration to collect their cell phones. and we'll continue to stress the expectations and ensure that Alice ISD is following
006House Bill 1481. Elementary had no issues at all. So, thank you administration for helping us in implementing House Bill 1481. Just like to remind the community and the board, we still have some goals that we want to achieve and one being improving student academics and that's the focus that the staff will have throughout the year. Safety continues to be a main priority as well and attendance. We want to make sure that our students are building leadership, character, academics obviously and service. So those are things that we will be working on throughout the year and we're already shining at the start of this year. So we'll be starting by recognizing some of our students and staff. So I do invite um Dr. to come up to recognize our Alice High School CTE education and training program
007students. >> Good evening, board president, board members, Dr. Dinho, and members of the audience. Tonight we gather to celebrate outstanding achievements of our students at Alice High School where we are dedicated to nurturing and preparing lifelong learners for success in college, their careers, and military service. I'm especially excited to highlight the remarkable accomplishments of our CTE students who have demonstrated exceptional skill and commitment by placing at the state level and also qualifying to compete at the national stage. To begin, I would like to invite my Rodriguez, the proud teacher and sponsor of our teaching and education program of study to honor the students who have excelled at the state level competition and qualify for a national competition. >> Good evening. My name is Marty Bill Rodriguez and I'm the teaching and training adviser and tapping
008advisor at Dallas High School. Um, and we're really excited to uh make it to nationals this year. We I've been doing this since 2011. We always have students that make it to stay. We've never gone past that. So, this was like just amazing. Uh, so I do have two students that are here today to um to receive their certificate and so we can honor them. I I'm like I'm ready to untie here. Okay. So, here we have Stephanie Chaveeta. [Applause] And we have Dakota Garagona. So Stephanie and Dakota, their project was elementary edition of interactive bulletin board and they have to create a board that students can actually go up to and do a whole lesson with. So they did that. Um the other two students that didn't make it tonight is Elena Gandu. she
009is a student at Utrgv and she's on the dance team so that's where she's at. And then Cassandra Garza, she works so she couldn't make it either. And they also had the same elementary um interactive bulletin board. So that's what's going on with that. And um so we're excited. So this coming year we're hoping because we kind of set the bar there. So we're kind of hoping that it works out again. We have uh area&M Kingsville. We have state at the Anatol in Dallas. And then nationals will be at C in uh Seattle, Washington. So we got to put some money aside for all that good stuff, guys. Surprise for all of us, you know, to to do this. And uh so we got to be prepared and we got to do all the stuff
010that to get us there. So thank you for all the support everybody. the community came out in droves also to support us because it takes a lot to get us there and to um you know just to embrace and to to give a psych financial ability also to be there. So thank you everybody here Yes, please. Thank you very much. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you, Miss Rodriguez. You're right. The bar said hi. So, we'd expect to have a back. Now we will continue with the diagnostic and therapeutic services. >> Next I would like to invite the health science teacher Bella to spotlight the students who placed first at state competition and achieve national recognition with students in our program. Bella Um, good evening members of the board, administration, and community. I'm honored to recognize the
011incredible accomplishments of our students. Um, so first, we would like to say congratulations to Mrs. um Emily Reea who placed seventh nationally in medical terminology. Um, next we would like to recognize our health knowledgeable team who placed second in the nation. Um, again this was at Skills USA nationals leadership conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Um so part of our health knowledgeable team consists of Caleb Flores, [Applause] Tiffany Kims, [Applause] Eli Walker, and Antonio. [Applause] So out of 18,000 competitors from all over 50 states, only state champions advance to nationals. Um competing against we are competing against career and technology schools. Um so these are schools that are um geared towards CTE um only and they focus solely on health science. So um our well-rounded students rose to the challenge and they were pro they proved their
012dedication and determination. Um we want to thank Dr. Kabala and Dr. Gandhu for giving us the opportunity to showcase our students at the national level. We also want to date thank the board and Dr. Anisa Trovinho for your ongoing support. And we want to thank Miss Christina Delar Rosa for her constant guidance during the competition. She was wonderful, a great help. Um because we had two two competitions going at once, we had to separate and it was it was very much appreciated. Um so we're so grateful to our sponsors and our parents. Thank you also for um everything that you've done during this journey and I just want to say I could not be prouder of our students um competing and placing at the national level. Um they were fierce competitors who brought great pride
013to Alice High School and they proved the excellence um that our programs can achieve. Very proud of you. [Applause] This is a taller book >> especially with present and Dr. Kala conference room. >> Thank you Tony. Thank you so much. in between >> right there. I'm >> tippy to everybody else. Nice. [Music] >> Good job, guys. Congratulations. >> Great job. >> We want to reread this. We love the hat. >> We love the hat. >> They look very sharp and they definitely represented Alice and put us in the map. So I know a lot of them are juniors so they'll be coming back this coming year. Well, they're now seniors. Thank you, Dr. >> Now we have coach coming up to recognize one of our outstanding coaches. So, coach, >> good evening, Dr. Fino, board
014of trustees and community of Alice. Uh each year the the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches uh recognizes an outstanding coach award which they call the Dean Whis award. This is this award is one of the most prestigious recognitions in Texas girls high school basketball. It is presented annually by the TABC to honor coaches who demonstrate exceptional leadership, integrity of the game, a proven record of competitiveness, excellence, outstanding dedication to student athletes, and a dedication to the game of basketball. This is this award is not not only highlights coach's achievements on the court but also reflects her impact on student athletes daily her school and the community of Alice. It is a proud moment for the Alice ISD athletic department and serves as a great inspiration to all of our students and staff. Let me give
015you a little perspective on this award. Out of 251 5A basketball schools and coaches. Our coach was selected number one. This year's recipient of the Dean Whis 2025 outstanding coach award goes to Miss Marie Santos. [Applause] Congratulations. [Music] >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> And we're going to get her family to come up. >> Some of our basketball and family. Let's go take a picture of the Oh, you want to stand up? Hold on. [Music] Which way do you want? >> Maybe I need to [Applause] go up high. You got everyone ready? Two, three. Smile. [Applause] [Music] Thank you, Miss Santos. >> I mean, that's an awesome privilege to be recognized by your colleagues, and it's great to have some of your students here, too. I know she's heading out, but she had some of
016her players there with her. So, that was really nice. And some of them I know graduated and they're here still to support you. So, it's a testament of their commitment to your program because that means that you left a legacy in them. So, great job. >> Thank you. >> Now, we have recognition of an individual, Mr. Patrick. Uh so, Mr. Garza is currently the Texas Elementary Principles and Supervisors Association President. So, TAPSA is a memberowned and membergoverned organization that has served Texas preK through 8th grade school leaders since 1917. So TESSA focuses in on building professional networks, growing leadership skills, contributing to the profession, and providing learning opportunities for its members. It represents over 6,000 members who oversees the education of approximately 3 million elementary students, preK and Texas. So, TESSA is also affiliated with
017the National Association of Elementary School Principles. LSISD proudly recognizes Mr. Patrick ASA for his outstanding accomplishment in being selected the TESA region 2 President [Applause] honor that reflects his dedication, leadership and commitment to excellence in education. We are incredibly proud of his achievement and grateful for the way he represents Alice ISD at the regional level. So, Mr. Gor said, give it up. [Applause] All right, good job. Mr. they will represent us really really well. So, thank you so much. >> And that individual superintendent. >> No, no, we will continue. Sorry, I thought that was it. But no, we have Delena doing our academic update. How can we forget? I thought that was just a good evening board president, members of the board, Dr. Trevinho, members of the audience. This evening, we'll be sharing a look
018at some of the preparation that's happened over the last couple weeks to ensure that we are ready to hit the ground running today for school year on July 23rd. and 24th all the district and campus leaders came together for our leadership academy. The theme this year was stronger together, building a championship team and with the vast majority of the leaders returning this year from last year, uh we're really able to focus on continuing to grow together and continuing to build compassion and working towards our goals. The academy started off with a deep dive into district and campus level data looking at performance looking at accountability breakdowns and followed with an in-depth exploration in the area of writing as that's been an area you know kind of that we're working on long-term growth. We really looked
019at the data from the perspective that it's a reflection of our work and it represents the successes and the needs of our students. So with that in mind, campus administrators were able to use some of that time to have some really intentional conversations uh regarding goal setting and to begin developing their action plans that they're going to be turning in within the next couple of weeks. Some other learning that we also had during those two days, um Charles Garcia presented on artificial intelligence in education. uh you know really looking at how how can we adapt with the times but be utilizing uh the technology in a way that's a benefit to both teachers and students. Um Mike and Alasa and Kim Kubala shared very important um campus safety training uh with everyone and we also
020had Brad Gibson from Lead Forward come in uh and do some training on higher order thinking, differentiation and rigor. July 30th and 31st uh we welcomed 39 new teachers to new teacher orientation. So, the purpose of new teacher orientation is really to support uh teachers new to Alice ISD um and having everything they need to be prepared for their first days at uh of school in Alice. During this time, they were also able to meet with their mentor teachers who are going to be helping them out and supporting them throughout the entire year. So, uh welcome to all of our new teachers and staff members. August 4th, we had our 2526 convocation. The theme is the future starts here, character, leadership, academics, and service and action. Um, and which of course those are our pillars.
021Our guest speaker this year was Dr. Esparansa Zenas who is the executive director of the education service center for region 2. And we also had our very own Dr. and our board president, Miss Jennifer Badetta, who really set the tone with their opening messages as well. And uh as you can see from this slide, the energy was great. Um performances by our students were impressive as always. Um and there was absolutely no shortage of spirit to start the year. August 4th, 5th and 7th were our campus professional development days. So on these days, campus administrators led their campus professional development. They worked really hard to turn around and share the learning from leadership academy and to make sure that they tailored it to the specific needs of their own campuses. So they really in those
022days set the stage for a great year. um kicking off the year in a positive way uh with focusing on working together as a campus team uh to work toward their goals for this year. On August 6th, we had our district-wide professional development. So, this was all for all teachers and staff. Um it was made up of more than 40 targeted half-day and full day sessions. Uh some of those sessions are included uh here and on the next screen. Uh they really ranged everything from support in various content areas uh to behavior strategies, accommodations. Uh we also had a college board trainer come in uh to work with our AP teachers. And uh I I did want to do a a little aside there. The day after the training, I received a follow-up email from
023that college board trainer um saying how much she enjoyed working with the AP staff and that they were a very motivated and dedicated team of professionals. So, I just kind of wanted to give our AP staff a shout out on that because that's always nice to hear um especially from someone who does training on a national level. Our day ended that day uh for all district and campus administrators with a training uh uh done by a former DEA agent on highintensity drug trafficking areas. Uh it really provided a lot of really good information to everyone uh that we can use and implement to help keep our students safe. So all these things on these slides were preparation of course to lead up to our big day. So today we were able to uh welcome our
024students back for 2526. It was great to see them returning and really seeing each of the campuses come to life again. So the work has begun and everyone is focused on the goal of working toward becoming that a district that are amazing students deserve. So it starts with me. I matter. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you. Now, we'd like to show a quick little video on our first day here at LS. I'm surprised. Great day at Hollis ISP as we welcome our students to the 2025 2026 school year. The smiles, the excitement, and the feeling in the air is very positive. We're looking forward to an amazing year. Thank you students and parents for making the start amazing. Thank you teachers for setting up your classrooms very welcoming and inviting Thank you everyone. I think
025the kids are going to have an amazing year. They might have been a little nervous, but once they got into the classrooms, I promise it was beautiful to see them engaged. student services. Uh I don't think Miss Vosquez necessarily has anything ready. We just want to let you know and we're going to continue to monitor attendance. She's getting ready for PES and making sure that our application for the optional flexible school date gets approved by TA. Uh Kim wants to give a quick update on safety being that that is definitely something from day one that we want to prioritize. board president Dr. Superintendent Board of Trustees and audience uh outside the safety update for August 11, 2025. Our uh security assignments for the 2025 have been finalized. Alice High School has four security guards, two
026Alice PD officers. William Adams uh Middle School currently has two security guards, one LSPD. The uh 2025 2026 compensation plan is recommending an additional security guard, one per grade level. Uh Debose Elementary has one security guard, one officer. Newton, one security guard, one officer. Signs, one security guard, one officer. Shower, one security, one officer. DAP has one security guard. All campus met detectors have been checked and are fully operational. At Alice ISD, we have six metal detectors. Uh Wayne Mountains, we have four metal detectors. Elementaryaries and DAP have one metal detector each and all uh all the schools have met detector ones that they can use. Uh CPR resertification training on July 31st, 2025. 60 employees from the coaching staff, band directors, and safety team were reertified for C CPR. On August 6, 2025, 81
027employees from the special ed department, the fine arts departments, elementary PE, uh, food service were also CPR reertified. So, we had a total of 141 employees throughout the district get certified within that week. I'm also uh correlating with Lisa Rosano, the head nurse for the district on stop the bleed Craig's training. Craig's training is given by LSPD and Mike instructor and Narcam administration training to ensure that the staff is prepared for emergency response across the uh campuses. You have any questions? >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you, sir. And I'm now going to invite Melissa Sanchez to the podium to give an update. Uh if there's no questions on the revenues and expenditures, I know that we have some presentations. >> You all have any questions? >> Good evening. Uh members of the audience,
028members, uh last month we put out an RFP for bank depository services for the 25 through 27th school year. We hand delivered these RFP packages to 10 of the local banks and we received three responses. So we asked three of those banks to come in and they're going to come in in the order that we received the proposals. We invited them for a brief fiveminute presentation to just let you guys know what they have to offer the district. So first we're going to have David Silva from Prosperity. Good evening, Dr. Domin. Madame President, board members, and audience. My name is David Silva. I'm the president of the local prosperity bank, and it's with great pleasure that we're here to offer again the school district our depository bid. Um, again, we're offering the school district no
029service charges for any of our or your services at all. No analysis charges, no nothing. Uh, it's the same bid that we've given you all since uh 2005. We've been your depository for basically about 20 years. Um, there was times when other banks would bid, Prosperity Bank always stepped up to the plate and and submitted a bid. Um, a little history about Prosperity Bank. Uh, it's a Texas-based regional bank. Uh we started back in Etna, Texas uh back in 1983 and acquired a bank there. And we're currently now at 283 full service banking center with 33 locations here in South Texas. Uh we just also recently acquired American Banking Corpus and uh they had 18 locations and they'll be coming on board uh to Prosperity Bank uh at the end of the year part of
030this coming year. Uh so that will give us more locations in San Antonio and uh Victoria and of course uh here in Corpse Christie. Um we're honored to have received prestigious award recognitions from three publications which is money bank which money best bank in Texas uh prosperity bank for 2025 for America's best banks in 2025 and Newsweek America's best regional bank in 2025. Um, now to give you a little uh history u as far as what we've contributed to the school district. Back in 2019, we stepped up and donated 39,245 for the cost of your marquee or electric sign that's in front of the high school. We paid for that completely. Uh, and so that's beautiful sign that you have in front of the high school. Uh, we paid the cost to uh build that.
031We also just recently donated $1,000 to your teachers lunchon and have contributed over the past years um for all your school functions and school ads. To go over the bid now um we we're offering as I said a a no service charge fee. Our uh now account rates is u one of the products that we offer which current rate that we're paying on interest with checking is 0.15. We're giving you an extra 15 basis points and that's variable rate. And so that'll put you would put you if you use the non account rate at 30. We also have our money market rates which are tier rates and those start uh with zero balances to up to 10,000 uh at 60 uh% and then goes up to anything over a million at 3% um on our
032money market uh what's called a premier money market rate. Um, and of course, uh, we have on our staff experienced, uh, people. My manager has been with us for over 14 years. My officer there has been there 11 years and I've been with Prosperity 26 years, 35 years total banking experience. Um, Prosperity Bank again is honored to present the school district with our our bid. Uh, and again, we don't put you in analysis. You don't get any earnings credit that offsets some of the fees that they charge you in analysis. It's a straight simple bid. No service charges at all uh to the school district and and as you can see probably over the past years you've not paid any service charges. Any questions on on the bill? Okay. Appreciate you all and have a
033good evening and happy birthday Dr. Tina. Next, we're going to have Mr. Albert Jordan from Texas Champion Bank. Good evening. My name is Jordan, chief financial officer for Texas Champion Bank. Originally charged in 1912 in San Die 444 million asset side at the end of the year. We have about $45 million in capital. If we were to get the contract, we service the depository here at the location in Alice. We're owned by Mosqu Financial Services Holding Company. As far as the bid on the 19 interestbearing accounts that the city has uh or the school district has, uh we've offered an earning credit rate of 2 and a half% that would be a fixed rate for the term of the contract for the two years. It's not a variable rate and you know with interest rates
034uh you know probably going down over the next couple of years you know that might be a factor having a fixed rate versus a uh a floating rate. Your uh deposits of course would be collateralized. The way we do that is with letters of credit from the Federal Home Loan Bank. And of course, we would collateral of 102%. Um, as far as depository contracts, we have about $30 million in uh public funds. Currently, we have three school districts. We've got Benvitas ISD. We've got Charlotte Independent School District. And we also have the uh Kennedy Independent School Districts. We've had these for quite some time. See what we did when u the information that we were given on the 19 accounts. What we did was is we went through and calculated what the uh school district
035would have earned on that money for two accounts or two largest accounts, the general account and the payroll account. And uh during that period of time, the way we would calculate it on our account analysis, uh you would have earned $94,000 after fees on the general account and you would have earned $45,000 on the payroll account. And other than that, that's really, you know, kind of comes down to the rate that uh is being paid on that on the earnings credit rate. But uh again, we've got experience with other banks. We're trying to give you a good interest rate on uh on those accounts and uh appreciate the opportunity. You'll let us out to bid on the funds. Thank you. Thank you. The last one is Marie Garzo from First Community Bank. >> Hi moral
036support. So, uh, first, thank you all for giving us the opportunity to present today. My name is Rick Garza. I'm the treasure management department with First Community Bank. This says, um, Joanne Pinkerton, who's our senior, um, operations manager. We want to, um, thank you all, um, for allowing us to speak because, um, we feel like we'd be the perfect bank for you guys. U,, we are rooted here, started here in Alice, Texas 41 years ago, and we continue to grow, we continue, have 12 branches. Um we have all the standard uh services that you will get from any large bank. Uh but we're a community bank which gives us a lot of heart and so um we are very competitive with our um our our services. We do um the way we have our our
037accounts built is um we have the consolidate consolidated account structure to where we are allowing all y'all's accounts to be consolidated to one and that those accounts are netted against um our earnings credit which with the earning credit which is very competitive um allows for like no service fee hopefully. One of the things that we do offer as well is um our automated services um direct deposits um remote deposit services so that you don't have to come into the bank and make deposits. Our desktop wires you do from your offices um and we also offer um the investment of your idle funds. So the bank offers a standard money market plus account that can be used as an investment suite and one of the positives about that is that it is um 100% insured no
038matter what the balance is. Okay. So 100%. One of the things that we also offer not only to the bank but we also offer to your employees is we have extended hours. So we um have two locations here in Alice that we have extra what they call >> interactive interactive teller machines. Sorry I forgot the word interactive teller machines which allows all of your employees um at no cost to come and cash their checks after hours. So after the bank is closed, they can come to our interactive tele and talk to a teller face to face and we're open till 7:00 p.m. We don't stop processing at your standard bank hours. We stay processing till 7 p.m. um for the convenience of not only you but your employees as well. So um we also offer
039um sorry purchasing cards for um for your employees that they have to travel. So the purchasing cards could you know work well for them. um and also very competitive. We also offer pay pay card accounts for your employees. So for your employees who may not want a standard checking account, we offer this convenience of being able to open accounts um at no cost. Um can't think of anything else to come here. I'm sorry to get hot. That's okay. Uh, as Mar said, we we are here. We are just as competitive as all of the bigger banks, but we get to know all of our customers by name. Uh, I know you probably all know Sadita, who's here with us, and she knows everybody here, but we're happy to have her. Um, but I can tell
040you we have uh extended hours, but Sadita, I think, is at the bank all the time, so she's always able to help. >> She's there 227 instead of 247. >> 227. So, um, outside of that, just about any service that you can think of. We we can help you with that. As Maria said, we do have a very competitive earnings credit rate. It's tied to, uh, the charger bill. So, it's out there. It's not something that that you have to worry about. So, we don't want to say you're going to get everything for free, but, you know, with your balance is offsetting. Uh, the sweep account does allow you to set a target balance within the bank. And, uh, we do have the products, as she said, that will allow you to sweep. So your
041uh idle funds can invest and earn a good rate of return for you. Uh the product does allow for 100% of PIC insurance and so uh all of that you can access daily from your online banking. you can see the uh >> okay that's that's really I think when we have anything >> the last oh the last thing is that you have a dedicated team to assist you any time um you call phone number that we give you and you will re reach somebody not anybody else in especially in the treasury management department which will probably be who you'll be dealing with 90% of the time the other time will be miss And we are our home office is 45 minutes away. So we can be here same day. >> The same day to assist.
042What questions do you have for us? >> Thank you very much. >> Later on this evening, you all will be voting on a bank. So, just wanted to give you an update on the bond financial uh side of it. Uh I know that we do have Weaver and Jacobs here that will give you an update on the construction, but as of August the 4th, uh the bond has collected an interest $1,325,912.38. So, just wanted to give you an update on the interest that we have accumulated. And now I invite Mr. Inosa to give us a little update on our facilities President Dr. Board of Trustee audience. Thank you for your time. Uh Mike here to talk to you a little about what's going on within the district. uh currently AC's of course right so we
043got about nine that are currently uh are being repaired and orders are being ordered for those in order to get those repaired as part of as far as the strategic plan we already so nunen uh 102 102 205 uh shyl 205 and here at central office have all been replaced uh wait weeding out basically the R22 units and implemented with the need 454. Uh moving forward, we're still assessing those units and looking at our R22 units in order to see the age of those units and a lot of them are probably going to be the 15 plus years and we need to weed them out as soon as possible because the uh parts to get that are obsolete. We can't even find them anymore. So, um, the Charlotte Elementary School. So, pretty much what's going
044on there, uh, all the work has been done. So, right now, we're currently in the process of waxing those floors in order to get them to where students can move in or the, uh, hopefully by Monday. So, right now, four of those rooms are ready. uh they've been waxed uh 72-hour uh curing process and so tomorrow they'll start on the remaining rooms and hopefully by Saturday the curing process will be done with that for a move in on Monday. >> Thank you. >> Now we have an update on the bond project of our stadium. So do we have Tim? I see Tim. Oh yeah, there you are. got a presentation for you all. But good evening audience, uh, superintendent, uh, Dr. Jvinho, board members. Uh, I'm Tim Ger with Weaver Jacobs. I'm here to give
045a kind of a progress report on the football stadium. So, Go ahead and go to the next slide. And I kind of want to explain kind of what's going on. I have this little laser pointer which you can't really see. So over here on the left side of the kind of the big mound of dirt down there is the south concession stand and then you have the north concession stand. In the middle is the press box. Then you got the fieldhouse over there. And then the visitors concession stamps. Uh you go to the next slide. Uh just kind of just another picture just so y'all can kind of get an idea of where we're at. Uh when I go and present to y'all, I'll kind of lay out each building. Building A, building B, building
046C, which it goes, you know, north concession or south concession, north concession, press box, and so on and so forth. So that's kind of more of a a little bit of a layout for y'all. You can go to the next slide. So this would be uh the south concession. Uh currently we have the building pad is complete. They're working on the underground electrical on that one. Uh that one's kind of ongoing. As soon as the electrical gets done, then the plumbers will get in there, do all their underground electrical, and so on and so forth. Uh you go to the next slide. The this is building B which would be the press box. We currently have finished the building pad. We are drilling peers as of last Thursday. Uh that is ongoing. Hop to have
047that complete with the peer drilling portion of it middle of next week. U go to the next slide. This would be building C which is the north concession stand which is closest to the A transformer pad and hence uh we started with the underground electrical that has been complete. The plumbing underground is ongoing. We're looking to have that wrapped up uh end of this week early next week and then they'll be moving on to the south concession. On to the next slide. This is the fieldhouse. Building pad is complete. As soon as north and south concessions get done with all their underground, uh electricians when they're done with the south concession, they'll move over to the the fieldhouse and start their underground over there. Go to the next slide. Uh this is building E which
048is a v visitors concession stand which is on the other side of the property. uh building pad is complete. Once press box is done with underground electrical, we'll move over to the visitor side. We want to get the we really want to focus on the home side first and then uh visitor side will come second. Uh this is just kind of sitewide. We got the main primary uh underground tube where the transformer is going to go which is right there. That's been complete inspected by the city. being inspected by AP. We're just waiting on uh soon as they get done drilling peers at the press box to move over there, drill the pierce for that one, get that uh pad poured and finished. Uh I don't think I had Oh, is that Oh, and this
049uh field dirt guys are working on the field event right now. They're excavating that dirt out, getting that prepared to uh get that site prepped up. Uh just kind of want to briefly go over what are kind of hard dates that we're trying to hold with concrete foundation pores and that kind of stuff. Uh the north concession as you see the underground electrical is done the plumbing should be done early next week. Uh soon as that happens, uh and the peer drilling gets done, uh let the concrete guys will move over to that north concession, start digging, uh grade beams and footings for that to prep for that foundation. And our our pour date is uh the week of September 5th on that one. Uh the press box, uh they're working on peers right now.
050Uh as soon as I get done drilling peers, then they'll move on to the elevator shaft, start excavating that out, get that prepped to pour because you have to have that poured before you do anything else. Uh and then at that same time, the elevator shaft is getting uh excavated uh electrical get in there and start doing underground. And then the plumbing also they're going to try to tag team at the same time and get that uh wrapped up. Uh poor date on that one. We're we're looking September the week of September 19th to have that, you know, the that poor date on that. Uh south concession, as you can see, we're kind of north press box, south concession, we're kind of flowing that way. And then we'll move to the press box. And then
051the uh visitor side, but south concession, our core date on that one is uh early October. And uh then we'll go on from there and keep going around to the fieldhouse. and uh the visitors concession stand. So that's kind of all I got. You'll have any questions, concerns, comments? >> Thank you. >> Appreciate it. >> Mr. Bis and just for purposes of the record and the minutes, Mr. Samura arrived at the meeting at 7:20. Mr. Fine Arts [Music] superintendent of schools board of trustees guest. Thank you for allowing me to speak on fine arts update. We're going to be submitting uh for next month's board meeting recognition for our spirit division. They have a wonderful summer uh with their camps on both our cheerleading uh squad and our stutter team. So they won numerous superior
052awards. Many many we want to make sure and spotlight them during our next upcoming uh board meeting in September. Uh it was great to welcome all the students back to school for their first day. It was wonderful seeing all their faces back. We've seen the high school for four weeks, but great to go see the middle school kids. Uh we hit the road running. Uh we now have our mariachi preparing for their upcoming region auditions in early October and our jazz band will be preparing for their region auditions in late September. And we had a successful glow run for our high school marching band. And thank you for all those that were able to attend. It was great for our students, our families, community. We appreciate all your support. It was a great showing. And
053now we are in the next phase of getting ready for our first game at the end of August and getting ready for our first preio competition on October the 4th. We'll be attending a preio and Gregory Morton. So we're looking forward to our kids working very hard all across fine arts. So it's working hard. Any questions? Thank you all for all your support. Have a wonderful evening. >> Thank you. And last but not least, coach, an update on >> Good evening, Dr. President of the board, trustees and community of Alice. I want to give you an update on kind of what's going on with athletics uh besides the athletes and kids. We have a peanut butter bowl uh that's going on that started. We've started promoting that again. had a real successful run last year.
054I wanted to give you a little insight on Peanut Butter Bowl, kind of how it works. Uh all throughout the state, there's 110 schools that are competing. Um it's the first game of the year. Uh we have about five or six games here locally in our area. Uh but it's it's Alice versus Corpus Christie Carroll. Uh not only on the grid iron and and the scoreboard. We want to land, don't get me wrong. Uh but it's also uh raising peanut butter amongst those communities. Um and we have until August the 28th. The campaign started this week. Uh you'll start seeing the red uh container cans throughout the district and and some in the community uh as well. Uh but we're able to teach our kids life lessons. Um that you know it's better to to
055give than to receive. and and and our kids are we we've got some great kids here in Alice that really have jumped on onto this uh and want to know where can we donate, where can we give peanut butter and things of of that nature. Um this started in San Antonio, but but all the proceeds go back to the community of Alice and to the food bank uh here here in Alice. Uh so from now until August 28th, we're going to start promoting this and pushing it out. uh it's called a peanut butter bowl. And then on August 29th after the game, uh we'll get those results in. Uh last year we raised almost 4,000 uh jars of peanut butter, which uh we finished ninth in the state. So out of those 110 schools, we
056finished ninth in the state. We were we were named the newcomer of the year, so to speak. Uh but we really want to do better. Uh and I think we will do better because this community is is all all on board. So, wanted just to give you an update on the uh on the peanut butter bowl. You'll see uh you'll see that throughout the community. It's red big red trash cans that we put out. Uh there's one at every elementary school. There's two at Whams, uh three at our high schools. There's one here uh at at the advent office. There's going to be two at the courthouse. Uh and we've got about four or five that we're still waiting on some other businesses to to accept those. Also, hometown ticketing. Uh wanted to give you
057an update uh on ticket sales. Uh we are roughly um we put out Hometown put out 2750 homeside tickets for us to sell. That was the capacity of our homeside uh in the old Memorial Stadium. Uh we have sold roughly about 2200 of those right now. Um which if you look at the capacity in San Diego for our home games, that's roughly around 3,000. So, we're about 2200 right now with putting our band and our strutdders up there in the same the same side. Uh I think we're going to be pretty safe to be all on one side there uh with us as far as the capacity. So, we still have about 4 or 500 tickets uh left to sell for for our three home games there in San Diego. Um so, if you know
058anybody looking for tickets, send them send them our way. But, but they're they're constantly buying those uh on a daily basis. Also, the home ticketing uh you can go back one the home ticketing app. We're really trying to push this out uh to our fan base. Uh it's the easiest way to purchase tickets. Uh you can download the app uh whether you have an iPhone or or an Android. Uh you can download the app um the home ticketing app. Search events Alice ISD events. It'll give you all the WHAMS events. It'll give you all the high school events. You can purchase your tickets there. just makes things a little more convenient when you start going to our events. Uh so we're really trying to push this uh to our fan base. Um some of the
059ticket some of the uh fan base come in and they have uh service issues at the at the gates and they're you know they're they're having to wait a little bit longer. So with the app uh and purchasing those tickets before they get to our events uh just makes it a little bit more convenient. So we're really trying to push the the hometown ticketing app uh onto our fan base. Okay. Uh the last thing is meet the coyotes. Like to invite everybody out to meet the coyotes. Uh that's going to be this Thursday. Uh 5 to 6 will be the tailgating uh out in front of our indoor facility. And then from 6:00 to 7:00 uh we'll we'll announce all of our fall sports uh kids. The band kids will be there. Our strutters will
060be there. Our cheer team will be there. So we'd like to invite you guys out to participate in that. Thank you guys. and uh David with BBK. Tim, if you all want to give us peanut butter, we'll take it because we want to win. >> Yes, ma'am. That's it for my report. >> Thank you, Dr. Tino. On to item number seven on the agenda, a brief 5 to 7 minute recess. So, it is now 7:37 and we're out of recess. The time is now 7:45 and we're back from recess. But before we continue the meeting, would like to wish happy birthday Thank you. Busy and conversation. >> Thank you. I appreciate it. >> You're welcome. Happy birthday. >> Thank you. And what do you want out for? >> Thank you. They make you the coordinator.
061Yeah, the guy be a bad deal. >> You'd end up with something to >> on to item number eight, the consent agenda. All items under consent agenda are acted upon by one motion. Upon a board member's request, any item on the consent agenda shall be moved to the action portion of the agenda. Before approving the consent agenda or hearing a motion from the board, I'd like to acknowledge the following community partners for sponsorships to our district. Beginning with Prosperity Bank, who made a $1,000 donation to the Alice ISD central office for the new teacher lunchon, Postal Life Credit Union, who made a $500 donation to the Alice ISD central office for the new teacher lunchon. And Verse Community Bank, who made a $300 donation to the Alice ISD central office for the teacher lunchon. Thank
062you. >> Do I hear a motion by any member? I'll make a motion to uh approve the uh donation of the consent agenda. Excuse me. As read. >> Thank you. We have a motion by Mr. Pña for approval of the consent agenda and a second by Mr. Dammo. All in favor? >> Motion passes. On to number nine, the action items. Dr. >> Yes. I'm going to ask that we move item 9B up. I know that we have a member of the McGriff insurance agent here and because he is traveling far away, we want to make sure that he gets home safely. So, I'm asking that we move 9E up. >> Thank you. and 9E is consideration and possible action to approve the 2020 cash property insurance coverage with McGriff. Alice Independent School District went out
063for a renewal through a purchasing co-op meeting the procurement requirements. This co-op has allowed us to have a 13% reduction in our premiums, a savings of $16,288. So, we recommend for this to be approved. >> Unless you have questions. >> Does anyone have any questions regarding this? >> Is there a motion at this time? >> Make a motion to approve the property coverage plan. >> I second. >> Thank you. We have a motion by Mr. a mot for approval and a second by MSCA. All in favor? >> Motion passes. >> Thank you. The next item is 98 consideration and possible action regarding emergency for procurement of goods and services to repairs or mitigate damage to district facilities resulting from unforeseen mold infestation. And so I'd like to execute policy CH legal and local allowing the
064superintendent to execute um in cleaning Sherid Elementary. We found ourselves in a situation where we had mold so quick before the start of the school year. So we needed to execute this policy so we could start cleaning it before the start of the year. And so uh we asked that you all approve it. We checked with legal and uh we were in compliance with our policy and ensuring that our students came back to a safe school. But because of the timeliness, we needed to act. >> Thank you, Dr. Pino. Is there a motion at this time? >> I'll make a motion. >> We have a motion by Mr. Adiano. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> And a second by Mr. Riz. All in favor? >> Motion passes. The next one is consideration of
065possible action to award the RFP #25-02 the banking depository services for the 2025 to 2027 school year. So after careful evaluation of all bids and I know that you heard uh from the individuals that submitted bids, the committee used a set rubric to score and are making the recommendation to continue our banking depository with Prosperity Bank. >> So that is the recommendation. >> I make a motion to go with Prosperity Bank. >> Thank you. We have a motion by Mr. and a second by Mr. Samura. All in favor? >> I on number sorry 9C is consideration and possible action to renew coverage with TASBY risk management fund. This particular uh coverage is for automobile automobile physical damages school and privacy information security and part it is part of a co-op and so we'd like to
066continue that coverage with TASBY >> for the record I will be recusing myself from voting on this action since I'm employed with the TASBY risk management. >> Thank you Mr. I make a motion to >> I will abstain. >> We have a motion by Mr. Numberland for approval of the consideration and possible action to reduce the coverage with Tazby risk management. >> I'll second it. >> And a second by MSA. Any discussion? >> Was there any change in advice? >> Melissa, >> it went up by I think it was like $1,000. increase >> there. Any other questions? >> So again, we have a motion by Mr. Ramon and a second by Miss Ga. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion passes. >> 90 is consideration of possible action to renew unemployment compensation coverage with TASBY
067risk management fund. We've had a long-term relationship with TASBY in relation to the unemployment unemployment compensation coverage and we'd like to continue that partnership. >> Again, I will recuse myself and abstain from voting on this issues. I'm employed risk management plan. >> Thank you. For the record, Mr. Premier is going to abstain. Is there any session? get the Jazby risk management. Thank you. We have a motion by Mr. >> I'll second >> and a second by Mr. Reeds. Any questions? >> Same question. Question, please. >> For this, it's about the same. It usually goes up and down, I guess, depending on the number of employees we have because they're all at different rates. So, >> right. depends how many claims we get for unemployment and then that'll determine because if it's a auxiliary versus a
068professional unemployment cost vary right >> so we don't have the new cost yet >> it's it's here it's 43,872 okay >> in the year before >> I I don't have it on right now but it's it's probably 45,000 plus >> it's about the same every year Thank you. So all in favor I >> any opposed motion passes. >> 9F is consideration of possible actions for the addition/deion of authorized representatives for the LSISD text pool investment pools and designating authorized repres representatives. So, this is just to add Melissa Sanchez as an authorized signer and remove the previous CFO. >> Thank you, Dr. Cavino. Do we have a motion? >> I have a motion by Mr. Ano and a second by Mr. Zamura. Is there any discussion? >> All in favor? >> It passes. The next item
069is consideration of possible action for the 2025 2026 compensation plan and stipens. This is not to approve the raise yet because we do need to publicize that. This is just to approve the minimum mid and max and to approve the statements being that we're going to approve it at the end of the month. We need to start inputting all those. Remember we talked about adding the security, you know, adding a few little positions uh at the last work session and approving the minimum made and max. Like I said, this is for HR and the business office to start prepping. So when you do approve the raises at the end of the month, we'll be ahead of the ball game and not be so delayed. >> Thank you, Dr. >> Is there a motion at this
070time? I'll make a motion to approve comp 2526 compensation plan statements. >> I have a motion by Mr. >> and a second by Mr. Dan. Is there any questions or discussion? >> All in favor? >> Motion passes. >> Thank you. The next item is consideration and possible action of Texas&M agriive extension adjunct faculty agreement for the 2526 school year. And this is simply if our students are participating with Texas&M adjun professors that we are able to count them present and they're not counted absent. >> Thank you. Do we have a motion at this time? I make a motion that we approve the Texas&M agro life agro life extension adjunct faculty agreement for the 2526 school year. >> Thank you. We have a motion by second by Mr. Any questions or discussion? >> All in favor?
071>> Motion passes. >> Thank you. And this is all on you now. consideration and possible action to assign a delegate and alternate delegate board member for the 2025 EV CR conference co 2025 in Houston uh to make C and uh Denny's. >> Thank you. We have a motion by Mr. Simone and a second by Mr. Any questions or discussion related to the first two? >> All in favor? >> I motion passes. >> Uh 9J is consideration and possible action of the 2025 2026 Texas teacher evaluation and support systems. the t test appraiser. So every year the board needs to approve all the individuals that will be appraising teachers and their evaluations for the year. In the event that teachers request a second appraiser in your list, you will find members of the audience from central
072administration that can serve as appraisers as well. They need to keep up with their evaluation process and be, you know, tested every so often to make sure that they're still uh able to evaluate teachers. Thank you, Dr. Dino. Make a motion that we approve 2526 Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System Test. >> Thank you. I have a motion by Miss >> and a second by Mr. Dean. Is there any questions or discussions related to this issue? >> All in favor? I >> motion >> 9K consideration and possible action of budget amendment #25-05. Uh we just are asking to amend the budget for the the 2425 budget by function to match our expenditures. This is the last of the year. We want to close off the old budget and making sure that it is aligned with
073what we spent. >> Thank you, Dr. >> Is there a motion at this time? I'll make a motion to consider uh the or the action of budget amendment for 25 excuse me for number 25-05. >> We have a motion by Mr. Ben. Is there a second? >> Second. >> And a second by Mr. You're quick tonight. >> It's a coffee break. Is there any questions or discussions related to this issue? All in favor? I motion passes. >> And our last action item, consideration of possible action on service leader with neither attorney of law for the 2025 property value study and appeal services. So the only cost to the district is really it's to win in the sense of if they do a property value study and they find that we should have been getting more
074money and we get that money. They just get 10% of whatever we extra we get. So we're not paying anything up front. It's whatever monies we get. They get 10%. And we're really because of the fact that we're getting less and less from the state. We want to make sure that we get as much as we possibly can that we rightly deserve. >> I make a motion that we approve the service agreement with Lime Barter Attorneys at Law for the 2025 property value study and appeal services. >> Second. >> Thank you. We have a motion by Miss G and a second by Mr. Samura. Is there any questions or discussion? I have a question actually. Did they give us an idea of like a target goal of what they're expected to collect? >> I think
075they might have given us a tenative number to me and Melissa, but they're going to actually could go back up to three years. So maybe we could get more. I I can't remember off the top of my head what number they might have given. It it might have been 18,000 >> as a starting off point. >> Yeah. >> Well, good. And that's going to be an additional resource that we're going to tap into >> more funds that could come into the district. >> Thank you. >> Is there anyone else who has a question? All in favor? >> Motion passes. >> Thank you, Dr. Fino. On to item number 10 in the agenda. Close your executive meeting or session. Calling the with the following provisions set forth in the Texas government code. 10A Texas Government Code
076section 551.074 personal matters. 1081 Presentation and discussion of new hires. 1082 presentation and discussion of retirement. 1083 presentation and discussion of resignations. 1084 personnel update regarding investigations. discussion of the 2025 2026 organizational chart 10B Texas Government Code 5 section 551.071 legal matters board attorney advice and 551.074 074 personnel 10 B1 consultation with attorney regarding the legal issue related to the 2025 2026 organizational chart and the time is now 8:03 and we are going to enter into executive discussions. Thank you. The time is now 8:43 to and we're back from executive session. The board has reconvened and to consider and take action as necessary on the items discussed in closed or executive session. Item 12 on the agenda, announcement and action on items. All items on the agenda for executive session wereformational items only. So no
077action is necessary at this time. On to item 13. Ajourn. It's now 8:43 and this is ajourned. >> That's an early night.