001everyone and welcome 50 and we call this regular meeting of the president school district to order. We will first uh have our pledge of allegiance. Mr. Mkharis, will you please lead us in the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you. We will now go to roll call. We have Miss Ila P. Martinez, present. Mr. Christopher Hitler, present. Mr. Victor Perry, present. Mr. Hi Vera, present. Mr. Tom Gonzalez, present. Mr. Samuel Mikarees, our superintendent, present. Our attorney, Victor Seras here, present. And myself, Horawera, present. We just have Hey, Mr. Libson.
002He's walking in. So, Mr. Libson, where's Libson? Present. We will now move to public hearing of the Eagle Pass Independent School District proposed ESSA federal grant entitlement. We will open the public hearing at this time. It's 5:52. And the hearing is o is open. And there being nobody signed up or anybody on the phone or anything like that, we will close the hearing at this time. It is 5:52 and the hearing is closed. We will now move to citizens communications and recognitions. We do have a citizens communication. We have Mr. Enri Enriquez Salvador. Yes. Highlander. Yes. Up here, please. We just to let everybody know if anybody's speaking, you do have three minutes. Yes, sir. Hello. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Enrique Salvador. I'm a sales representative for Highland Dairy. Uh we've served the
003district as your meal providers for the past 25 years. Um we recently submitted a bid through region 20 uh and region 20 notified us that we were awarded the bid but we also got notified that for some reason uh they wanted to opt for another provider. So we were asking uh mainly what uh was there any issues that were happening that we were never aware of of far as service or quality product because uh we when we submitted the bid, we're looking at around an average of $20,000 more that you would be purchasing or that would cost the district if you decided to go with another milk provider. So, we were wondering and we were asking ourselves because we have open communication with uh the the kitchen supervisor with numerous uh uh uh kitchen staff
004and for the entire year of 2024, we did not hear a single complaint of us as far as quality product or any of the schools running out of product. Uh to what our knowledge, what we know right now that we were doing an excellent job. Everybody from the every school was very happy with us. So we were wondering why would uh the consideration of switching to another milk provider. This being a citizen communication. We don't answer uh in the citizen communication. We just listen to whatever the uh citizens are are bringing up. Thank you so much. And we just wanted to bring up like I said we did submit it a bid and the region region 20 did uh uh approve of us continue to working with you like we happily work with you guys
005for the past 25 years and we just wanted you to know I mean if there was any questions that the board might have for us we were here to answer any questions that the board might have. We appreciate it. We appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you very much sir. Thank you Mr. We will now move to recognitions. We will start off with recognition of the Armando Cerna Elementary Stallion softball team for winning the Division 3 softball city league championships. Thank you for allowing me to spend some time with you this evening. Our first recognition for tonight is to celebrate Seda's Division 3 softball superstars. The Lady Stallions Division 3 softball team proved to everyone just what being a Diamond Girl means when they snagged themselves a city championship. Congratulations, Lady Stallions, and keep
006getting those trophies. At this time, we invite the board to come forward along with Superintendent Mihadas for photos. parents, at this time you can come to the middle area to get your photo while we're assembling the picture. Just a reminder to all, all photos from tonight's board meeting are free to download on our district website tomorrow. Up next, we bring up Eagle Pass High School's very own Braio Hernandez. Bralio traveled to Flugerville, Texas to compete in the UIL Texas State Solo and Ensemble Competition with his trusty violin. there. Bralio walked away with a muchdeserved division one superior rating for his solo. Congratulations to this very accomplished young man and we can't wait to hear more of your musical stylings. If the parents are here, we do invite you to come up and join us in
007the photo. Okay. Excuse me. It's Braio Cardin. We continue our tribute to music as we bring up Eagle Pass High School senior and recent graduate Antonio Valadees for advancing to the Texas State Solo and Ensemble Contest on Monday, May 26th. Antonio was judged by highly regarded music professors from around the state who ultimately awarded him with a division one rating for his memory based MIMA solo. This is the highest honor a student can receive. Your fellow Eagles are extremely proud of you and thank you for representing EPs and EPISD so greatly. Eagle Pass High School is proud to recognize their varsity Lady Eagle softball team. The Lady Eagles wrapped up district in a nice little bow this year and continued their well-known dominance by collecting by district and area titles along the way. The Lady
008Eagles continues to show their powerhouse status year after year. Congratulations, Lady Eagles. Parents, if you'd like to join us in the middle, you can get your photo right now before we get our official one. Wait, wait, wait, wait. We have some stragglers. You can come up through the middle. Congratulations are in order for Coach Reosa and his baseball boys. The Eagles proudly represent their school in state playoffs once again this year. Way to go, Eagles, and we can't wait to see what next year has in store. Once again, if we have any parents that'd like to get their photo right now, you may do so. Just a reminder to everyone, the photos from tonight will be free to download on our district website tomorrow. continuing with our EPs accolades, we bring up the awardwinning color
009guard next. The Eagle Pass High School color guard had a spectacular season this year, placing high at every single one of competitions leading up to their tremendous showing at state. Color Guard brought home the bronze for the TECA state championship. That's one way to cement yourself in history. Color guard, great job. If there are any parents that are here, we invite you to take your photo at this time. CC Win High School is proud to recognize their very own district champ Dante Himenez. As only a sophomore, Dante clinched the 1600 district title with a remarkable time of 43719. The future is looking bright for this Maverick track with athletes like this. If the parents are here, we invite you to join us up front for the photo. You can give your phone to Mr. Reese.
010CC win track and field is eager to recognize senior and recent graduate Javier Ramirez. Javad has recently signed to run for St. Edwards and it is no surprise as he dominated the 3200 at district this year with a remarkable time of 100871. Congratulations Javad and best of luck in all your future endeavors. If the parents are here, we invite you to join us in the photo. Win Nation's very own Augustine Aguilera jumped into the spotlight this year when he nabbed the triple jump district title. With a jump of 435, this junior certainly made waves in district and a name for himself. Can't wait to see what senior year has in store for you. If there are any parents, you may we invite you forward to join us for the photo. rounding out our recognitions for
011this evening, it's the one and only varsity Maverick baseball team. The Mavericks hit the field and knocked it out of the park this season. So much so that they brought home a by district title and advanced to area finals. Way to represent Maverick Nation. And what a tremendous season you boys had. [Applause] Okay, while we're setting up the photo, just a reminder, parents, if you want to come to the middle, you can get your photo at this time. Also, all photos from tonight are available free for download on our website tomorrow morning. Good job. What? Yes. Got it. We will now move to district reports and presentations. Mr. Mkhares Kamos. Hello. Okay. Yes. Uh, if you look at our finances on page 53 of your agenda, that's the M budget. This is as of May
01231st. So, we still have three more months to finish the fiscal year. Uh, 9 months of operation. We're still doing good with revenues. As you can see on that page, we've received $und00 million in revenues. It looks like we will be receiving um the amount that was budgeted in our revenues. We we should be able to uh obtain the the full amount that we have budgeted. Expenditures, we continue to do well with the expenditures. We're at $66 million. Revenues are at 89% and expenditures are at 71, which is which is really good. utilities. Uh we continue to do well on our utilities. Just so you all know, we have a contract with TASBY up to year and our uh rate per kilowatt is 4 cents, which is a really good rate. So we have it
013locked in. Uh we're at 58% of the budget for after 7 months. We are looking at saving about 12 a little bit over 12% on our utilities, which is a little bit over half a million dollars. Uh taxes taxes still look strong. As you look at the report, uh we still have three more months to go and um we've been collecting about 92% of our taxes. Uh we're we're looking at hopefully being at 97 98% collection rate at the end of the year. Are there any questions? Questions from the board? Nope. Thank you, Mr. Mikarez. Thank you. Now we will move to action items. Number seven, action items. Number one, consider and take appropriate action on the request to approve the district of innovation plan renewal. Yes. Uh this is uh we're doing a renewal.
014I believe it is every five years. John, any questions? Uh, John is here. Any important changes, Mr. Cox? No, it's to early start to the school year. That allows us to have more time before state testing. Uh, it's every five years. Uh, it also allows us to finish the school year in May instead of drifting into June. Very good. Questions from the board. I have one question. This is still the Innovation still gives us the the uh authority to hire uncertified personnel at the secondary level. Not on this district of innovation plan. It only covers the early start to the school year. Some districts build that into the innovation plan. Ours is only the early start to that's what the district-wide committee had to vote. If they didn't pass it, it wouldn't be able to
015come to the board. They unanimously passed this uh innovation plan. It's only for the early start to the school year and that's why it's before the board right now for approval. Okay. Is that stipulated anywhere? On the district website. Yes, it's on the website. Thank you. Any other questions? If not, do I have a motion? So move. We have a motion by Trusty Martinez. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Trusty Gonzalez. Another questions. All in favor? All opposed. Same sign. Motion passes. Number two to consider take up production the request to recycle out of adoption instruction materials. Mr. Mharez. Yes. This is for us to recycle and uh that we send some trailers out so they can dispose of the materials. And uh we have Mr. Chidus here just in case the board
016has any question. It was just that's not needed anymore. Yeah. Okay. Do I have a motion? Motion by Trusty Libson. Do we have a second? Second by Trusty Perry. If there are no questions, all in favor. All opposed. Same sign. Motion passes unanimous. Now we will go to consent items. We'll take one. One. Okay. Just do I have a motion to accept the consent items. I'll make a motion to accept the consent items. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Trusty Hiller. Just to be clear, charter bus Charter. Okay. It is charter, right? Yes. Okay. Okay. Bus. Charter bus. Sorry. Charter bus. Yes. So, we have a motion and a second. Questions. Can we get a little description of this is just to renew the same the same charter contract that Mr. Mades, [Music]
017can you hear me? Okay. Yes. These are the services that we do every year for the charter buses. There's some of them where that um we usually go with which we already familiar with. Uh and we're able to go from one charter bus to the other in case that we have uh they they they provide a bad service. They have to do a survey every time they go out of town. And sometimes we have to go from one company to the other uh based on the on the services that they provide. Um, in previous years the costs had kind of been going up because of the supply and demand. This year the prices are pretty stable. We looked at it. I went over them with my purchasing director to make sure we were how the
018prices look and they're pretty much the same prices that we had last year. So, um, this is this is what we use for all the sports. uh we in the in the when we had co or and then when we came back to use the buses we had a lot of problem getting buses so we would have to use yellow buses uh this last year I don't think we use hardly ever yellow buses so um this is the bit we're doing it earlier before we would do it late in the summer and then if we did it the way we were doing the the bid before was by the time we would do the bid the companies were already taken by either school districts So, what we've been doing since last year, we're doing the
019bid two or 3 months earlier so that we can get contracts with the company before they commit to other school districts. Any other questions? If not, we have a second and a and we have a motion and a second. All in favor? We'll post same sign. Motion passes unanimous. At this time, the board of trustees of the pass Independent School District will convene in close session as authorized by the Texas Government Code, Chapter